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CDP Forests Questionnaire Preview and Reporting Guidance 2023 - Version Control
Version number
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Release / Revision date
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Revision summary
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1.0
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Released: January 10, 2023
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Publication of the 2023 questionnaire preview and reporting guidance.
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1.1
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Revised: February 16, 2023
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- F1.5a: Updated guidance for column 7. Companies can no longer report "0%" DCF volume.
- F1.5b: General guidance instructs companies to report "0" in rows that do not apply to their commodities. Example response updated to reflect this. New Explanation of Terms for 'Physically certified commodity volumes'. New Additional Guidance for 'No or negligible risk'".
- F6.4a: Guidance added to explain that appearance of column 8 is based on drop-down selections in column 6.
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1.2
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Revised: March 3, 2023
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- F6.1a - Added the option "Resource use and efficiency" to column 5.
- F6.2a - Revised column header and response option from "Countries" to "Countries/areas" for column 3.
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1.3
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Revised: March 9, 2023
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- F0.5, F0.6 - Error correction. These new questions are not relevant for MM and CO sectors and have been removed.
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1.4 |
Revised: July 28, 2023 |
- F6.1a: Chinese translations updated for columns ‘Base year figure’ (column 10) and ‘Target year figure’ (column 12) to correct a translation error in response options.
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CDP disclosure cycle 2023
Accessing questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies
CDP’s corporate questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies for climate change, forests and water security can be accessed from the guidance for companies page of CDP's website.
Submitting a response to the questionnaire(s)
Responses to questionnaires must be submitted via CDP's Online Response System (ORS), which is part of CDP's online disclosure platform. Please refer to Using CDP's Online Disclosure Platform for more details. Please note that while the questions themselves are the same in the questionnaire preview as they are in the ORS, the display format of some questions may differ, particularly for drop-down options and tables.
Sector-specific questions
Companies in high-impact sectors, in addition to the general questions, will be presented with questions specific to that sector. The rationale for developing a refined questionnaire for each of these sectors is outlined in the relevant sector introduction.
The sector-specific questions allocated to companies are defined by CDP's Activity Classification System (CDP-ACS). This system categorizes companies by focusing on the activities from which they derive revenue and associating these with the impacts to their business from climate change, water security and deforestation.
Please note that since each questionnaire includes sector-specific questions throughout, as not all questions will be applicable to your organization, some question numbers may skip.
Full and Minimum versions of the questionnaire
All organizations completing the climate change, forests and water security questionnaires are eligible to complete the full questionnaire.
In some cases, organizations may be eligible to complete a minimum version which contains fewer questions, and no sector-specific questions or data points.
Organizations are eligible to complete the minimum version of a questionnaire if they have an annual revenue of less than EUR/US$250 million*, and are disclosing in response to a request from a customer (i.e. CDP supply chain members), the CDP banks program members, the RE100 initiative, or the NZAM initiative.
Organizations will not be eligible to complete the minimum version questionnaire if they are disclosing in response to an investor request.
For information on scoring eligibility and implications, please see our Scoring Introduction.
* CDP reserves the right to remove the option of completing a minimum version questionnaire for previous responders to a questionnaire with an annual revenue of less than EUR/US$250 million, on the basis of the organization’s potential or existing environmental impact.
Timeline:
For the latest information on the timeline, please refer to our website.
Jan 2023
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- Preview of 2023 questionnaires and reporting guidance of reporting guidance released on CDP website (English versions).
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March 2023 |
- Preview of 2023 questionnaires and reporting guidance released on CDP website (translated versions).
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April 2023 |
- Online Response System (ORS) opens.
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July 2023 |
- Companies must submit their responses to investors and/or customers using the ORS to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in reports (where applicable).
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For any disclosure-related enquiries, please contact the CDP Help Centre or your regional CDP contact.
CDP forests questionnaire
This questionnaire is the property of CDP Worldwide, reproduction of all or part (including within software platforms) without permission of CDP Worldwide is prohibited. Please contact [email protected] for more information on this.
Introduction to CDP's forests questionnaire
Deforestation and forest degradation account for approximately 15% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Stopping deforestation and the conversion of other natural ecosystems is vital to significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of natural capital. Global demand for agricultural commodities is the primary driver of deforestation and ecosystem conversion, as timber is extracted unsustainably, and land is cleared for agricultural production. This represents major risks to businesses as agricultural commodities associated with deforestation, i.e., forest risk commodities, are the building blocks of millions of products traded globally and, thus, feature in the supply chains of numerous organizations.
In 2022, 1042 organizations responded to CDP’s forests questionnaire, which focuses on how organizations produce, source, and use four key forest risk commodities: timber, cattle products, soy, and palm oil. The questionnaire additionally allows disclosure by companies producing, sourcing, or using cocoa, coffee, and rubber.
CDP and New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF)
CDP is one of the endorsers of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), a voluntary initiative that brings together governments, companies, civil society and other stakeholders that work collaboratively towards ending deforestation by 2030.
CDP is also part of the NYDF Progress Assessment Partners, an independent monitoring effort undertaken by a growing group of NGOs and research institutions that annually assess progress toward the NYDF.
CDP data is currently used to support the assessment of the NYDF Goal 2, which strives to eliminate deforestation from the production of agricultural commodities such as palm oil, soy, wood and cattle products well before 2030. CDP data will also contribute to the assessment of the NYDF Goal 3, which is focused on reducing forest loss linked to non-agricultural drivers.
CDP and Accountability Framework initiative (AFi)
CDP is part of AFi’s collaborative effort to help companies fulfill commitments for responsible agriculture and forestry supply chains. The Accountability Framework provides a set of principles and guidelines designed to establish common definitions, norms, and best practices to help companies set, implement, monitor, and report on ethical supply chain commitments.
CDP has been working in collaboration with AFi to ensure further alignment, so that companies disclosing to CDP will also be reporting on the core principles set out in the initiative. Links between questions in the CDP forest questionnaire and the AFi core principles are indicated in the guidance for individual questions (under "Connection to other frameworks"). A document indicating ways in which CDP may be used to report on topics within the Accountability Framework’s scope is available on the AFi's website.
Sector approach
For forests, CDP has incorporated sector-specific content for three sectors: coal, metals & mining, and paper & forestry. The rationale for developing a refined questionnaire for these sectors is outlined in the relevant sector introductions. Organizations with business activities outside of these sectors will receive a general questionnaire, as in previous years.
Each question number in the forests questionnaire begins with the letter F. Questions that are unique to companies in a particular sector are labelled using a two-letter abbreviation within the question number. These abbreviations are noted below.
- F-CO for the coal sector
- F-MM for the metals & mining sector
In 2023, there are no sector-specific questions for the paper & forestry sector, but response options within questions are tailored to the sector.
Forests questionnaire changes in 2023
For 2023, 73% of the 2022 questions are unchanged or just have a minor revision. Some questions have been modified, some have been removed and some new ones added.
The total number of questions has risen by 2 to 80 (not including sector specific questions or the supply chain module). Note that each company has a unique pathway through the questionnaires determined by, for example, its sector and its responses as it moves through each module. No company is presented with all questions.
Key changes include:
- Three removed questions:
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F4.5b (2022) on commodity-specific policies (merged with F4.5a).
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F6.5a (2022) on Brazilian Forest Code (merged with F6.5).
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F6.5b (2022) on Brazilian Forest Code (merged with F6.5).
- Five new questions:
- F0.5 requests a description of your company’s reporting boundary.
- F0.6 requests the countries/areas in which your organisation operates in.
- F1.5b requests details on your organisation’s DCF and non-DCF volumes.
- F2.3 requests details on your organisation’s risk classification system, if you have one, for your sourcing areas.
- F6.10c requests details on your organisation’s production/consumption volumes in the landscapes/jurisdictions you engage in.
- One new question for minimum version only:
- F4.1 requests data on board-level oversight.
- Twenty-one modified questions:
- F0.4 – new column requests data on embedded commodity disclosure.
- F0.7a (2022 F0.5a) – new columns request data on % volume excluded for each commodity being disclosed on.
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F1.6a – new dropdown options for ‘Primary impact drivers’ and ‘Primary response’.
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F3.2a – revised question structure to simplify reporting on identified opportunities of your forest risk commodities.
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F4.1a – revised text column to focus on responsibilities for forests related issues.
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F4.2 – revised column header and new drop-down options for forest-related responsibilities of selected positions and/or committees.
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F4.3a – new and revised columns request more granular data on incentives.
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F4.5a – new column requests data on the coverage of your company’s forest-related policy, with an attachment functionality added to the question.
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F4.6 – new commodity specific column added.
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F4.6b – new columns request data on the countries/areas your selected cut-off date applies to and the reason for selecting your cut-off date.
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F6.1a – revised question structure to allow for more precise and comparable assessment of progress towards achieving targets. Additional dropdown options to include new target areas, such as driving transformational change in landscapes or sectors.
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F6.2 – new column to improve the accuracy of traceability reporting.
- F6.2a – new column to improve the accuracy of traceability reporting.
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F6.3a – new column requests data on embedded commodity certification.
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F6.4a – new column requests quantitative data on non-compliant suppliers engaged.
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F6.5 – revised question structure to enable your company to demonstrate the extent to which you comply with regulations in Brazil and the Brazilian Forest Code.
- F6.8/F6.9 – revised question structure to understand how companies are engaging suppliers on actions linked to company commitments.
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F6.10a – new dropdown options and revised column requests data on the process of prioritizing landscapes/jurisdictions for engagement.
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F6.10b – new columns request data on types of stakeholders engaged, utilization of a collective monitoring framework and landscape/jurisdiction ID.
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F6.12a – revised question structure to incorporate nature-based solutions in projects within or outside your supply chain.
- Four questions with modified guidance:
- F1.1, F1.2, F1.5c (2022 F1.5b) – guidance modified to supplement embedded commodity reporting.
- F1.5a – guidance modified to clarify how companies should report DCF volumes.
- Twenty questions with additional guidance: F0.4, F1.1, F1.2, F1.4, F1.5c (2022 F1.5b), F1.6a, F2.1a, F3.1b, F4.3a, F4.6b, F6.1a, F6.2, F6.3a, F6.4a, F6.5, F6.8, F6.9, F6.10a, F6.10b, F6.12a.
- Nine questions with a minor change: F1.5c (2022 F1.5b), F1.5f (2022 F1.5e), F1.4, F1.2a, F3.1b, F4.1b, F6.1, F6.10, F6.12.
- One question with revised question dependency: F6.6.
Revisions and changes are also indicated within the questionnaire as: no change, minor change, modified question, new question, modified guidance, additional guidance, or revised question dependency. 'Minor change' indicates wording edits and revisions to drop-down options or a simple clarification, while a modification indicates where the data requested has been revised.
A detailed document on forests question changes from 2022 to 2023 can be found on the Guidance page of the website.
F0 Introduction
Introduction
(F0.1) Give a general description of and introduction to your organization.
Change from last year
No Change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(F0.2) State the start and end date of the year for which you are reporting data.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Start date
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End date
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From: [DD/MM/YYYY]
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To: [DD/MM/YYYY]
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(F0.3) Select the currency used for all financial information disclosed throughout your response.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Currency
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Select from:
[List of currencies]
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(F0.4) Select the forest risk commodities that you are, or are not, disclosing on (including any that are sources for your processed ingredients or manufactured goods); and for each select the stages of the supply chain that best represent your organization’s area of operation.
Question Dependencies
Your selection(s) in this question will affect the modules, commodities, questions and options shown.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
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2
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3
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4
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Forest risk commodity
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Commodity disclosure
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Stage of the supply chain
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Are you disclosing information on embedded commodities?
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Explanation if not disclosing
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Timber products
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Select from:
- Disclosing
- Not disclosing
- This commodity is not produced, sourced or used by our organization
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Select all that apply:
- Production
- Processing
- Trading
- Manufacturing
- Retailing
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we do have embedded commodities
- No, because we have no embedded commodities
- No, because we do not know if we have embedded commodities
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Palm oil*
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Cattle products*
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Soy*
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Other – Rubber
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Other – Cocoa*
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Other – Coffee*
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* Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
(F0.5) Select the option that describes the reporting boundary for which forests-related impacts on your business are being reported.
Change from last year
New question
Select one of the following options:
- Financial control
- Operational control
- Equity share
- Other, please specify
(F0.6) Select the countries/areas in which you operate.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Country/Area
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Select all that apply
- Country/area drop-down list
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(F0.7) Are there any parts of your direct operations or supply chain that are not included in your disclosure?
Change from last year
No change (2022 F0.5)
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F0.7a) Identify the parts of your direct operations or supply chain that are not included in your disclosure.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to F0.7.
Change from last year
Modified question (2022 F0.5a)
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
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2
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3
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4
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Forest risk commodity
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Value chain stage
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Exclusion
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Description of exclusion
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
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Select from:
- Country/geographical area
- Business activity
- Facility
- Specific product line(s)
- Specific supplier(s)
- Recent merger, acquisition or divestiture
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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5 | 6 | 7 |
% of volume excluded | Potential for forests-related risk | Please explain |
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Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
- Not applicable
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- No potential
- Potential for forests-related risk but not evaluated
- Potential for forests-related risk, evaluated, but not disclosing to CDP
- Don’t know
| Text field [maximum 2,400 characters] |
[Add Row]
(F0.8) Does your organization have an ISIN code or another unique identifier (e.g., Ticker, CUSIP, etc.?)
Change from last year
No change (2022 F0.6)
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Indicate whether you are able to provide a unique identifier for your organization
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Provide your unique identifier*
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Select from:
- Yes, an ISIN code
- Yes, a CUSIP code
- Yes, a Ticker Symbol
- Yes, a SEDOL code
- Yes, another unique identifier, please specify
- No
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Text field [Maximum 50 characters]
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[Add row]
F1 Current state
Dependence
(F1.1) How does your organization produce, use or sell your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from last year
Modified guidance; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5. Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 12. Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
Forest risk commodity
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Activity
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Form of commodity
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Source
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Country/Area of origin
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% of procurement spend
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Comment
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- Owned/managed land
- Smallholders
- Single contracted producer
- Multiple contracted producers
- Trader/broker/commodity market
- Contracted suppliers (processors)
- Contracted suppliers (manufacturers)
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
[List of countries/areas]
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Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
- Not applicable
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Activity (column 1)
- Growing/ production of raw materials
- Harvesting
- Milling
- Crushing
- Refining & processing
- Refining & fractionation
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- Exporting/ trading
- Using as input into manufacturing process for power generation
- Using as input into product manufacturing
- Using for construction
- Buying manufactured products
- Distributing/ packaging
- Retailing/ onward sale of commodity or product containing commodity
- Slaughtering [Cattle products only]
- Tanning for leather [Cattle products only]
- Rendering for tallow [Cattle products only]
- Other, please specify
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Form of commodity (column 2)
Timber products:
- Hardwood logs
- Softwood logs
- Sawn timber, veneer, chips
- Unprocessed wood fiber
- Pulp
- Paper
- Boards, plywood, engineered wood
- Primary packaging
- Secondary packaging
- Tertiary packaging
- Cellulose-based textile fiber
- Wood-based bioenergy
- Goods not for resale (GNFR)
Palm oil*:
- Fresh fruit bunches (FFB)
- Crude palm oil (CPO)
- Crude palm kernel oil (CPKO)
- Palm kernel meal (PKM)
- Refined palm oil
- Palm oil derivatives
- Palm kernel oil derivatives
- Palm biodiesel
| Cattle products*:
- Cattle
- Tallow
- Beef
- By-products (e.g. glycerin, gelatin)
- Hides/ leather
- Tallow biodiesel
Soy*:
- Whole soy beans
- Soy bean oil
- Soy bean meal
- Soy derivatives
- Soy biodiesel
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* Not shown for companies from the paper & forestry sector
(F1.2) Indicate the percentage of your organization’s revenue that was dependent on your disclosed forest risk commodity(ies) in the reporting year.
Change from last year
Modified guidance; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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% of revenue dependent on commodity
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Comment
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don't know
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Measurement
(F1.3) Provide details on the land area you control and/or manage that is used for the production of your disclosed commodity(ies).
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select "Production" in response to F0.4.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 7: Land acquisition, land use planning, and site development
Core Principle 8: Land management and long-term protection
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
Forest risk commodity
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Type of control
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Country/Area
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Land type* |
Area (hectares)
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% Area certified
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Own land
- Concession/lease
- Outgrowers
- Scheme/Plasma smallholders [Palm oil only]
- Other type of control, please specify
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Select from:
[List of countries/areas]
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Select from:
- Managed natural forests
- Tree plantations
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from
0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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8 |
9 |
10 | 11 |
12 |
Certification scheme
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Conversion of natural ecosystems monitored during the reporting year, the last 5 years and/or since specified cutoff date |
Area of natural ecosystems converted during the reporting year (hectares)*
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Area of natural ecosystems converted since specified cutoff date (hectares)* | Area of natural ecosystems converted during the last 5 years (hectares)* |
Please explain
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- We have monitored conversion of natural ecosystems during the reporting year
- We have monitored conversion of natural ecosystems since specified cutoff date, please specify year
- We have monitored conversion of natural ecosystems during the last 5 years
- We have not monitored conversion of natural ecosystems
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] |
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
Certification scheme (column 7)
Timber products:
- FSC Forest Management certification
- PEFC Sustainable Forest Management certification
- SFI Forest Management standard certification
- Preferred by Nature SmartLogging
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- Sustainable Biomass Program
Palm oil:
- RSPO producer/grower certification
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- RA Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) standard
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
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Cattle products:
- RA SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
Soy:
- RTRS Production
- ProTerra certification
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- Other, please specify
- No certified area in this country/area
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(F1.4) Provide details on the land you control and/or manage that was not used for the production of your disclosed commodity(ies) in the reporting year.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select "Production” in response to F0.4.
Change from last year
Minor change; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 7: Land acquisition, land use planning, and site development
Core Principle 8: Land management and long-term protection
Core Principle 9. Access to remedy and environmental restoration
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Forest risk commodity
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Country/Area
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Type of control
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Land type
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Area (hectares)
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% covered by natural forests
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
[List of countries/areas]
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Select from:
- Own land
- Concession/lease
- Other type of control, please specify
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Select from:
- Set-aside land
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Area for infrastructure
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Unplanted land (designated for future planting)
- Natural ecosystems with potential to be legally converted for forest risk commodity production
- Degraded/abandoned area with potential for forest risk commodity production
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Scheme-smallholder-managed land
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Land protected by certification(s)
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Land leased for natural resource exploration and/or extraction
- Other land type, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum
2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
(F1.5) Does your organization collect production and/or consumption data for your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Data availability/Disclosure
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Consumption data available, disclosing
- Production data available, disclosing
- Consumption and production data available, disclosing
- Data available, but not disclosing
- Data not available
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(F1.5a) Disclose your production and/or consumption figure, and the percentage of commodity volumes verified as deforestation- and/or conversion-free.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Consumption data available, disclosing’, ‘Production data available, disclosing’, or ‘Consumption and production data available, disclosing’ in response to F1.5.
Change from last year
Modified guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Forest risk commodity
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Data type
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Commodity production/ consumption volume
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Metric for commodity production/ consumption volume
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Data coverage
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Have any of your reported commodity volumes been verified as deforestation- and/or conversion-free?
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% of reported volume verified as deforestation- and/or conversion-free
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘…disclosing’ in F1.5
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- Production data
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- Metric tons
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- Gallons
- Round wood equivalent (RWE)
- Wood raw material equivalent (WRME)
- Cubic meters
- Square meters
- Other, please specify
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- No, and we are not planning to verify volumes as deforestation- and/or conversion-free
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(F1.5b) Provide a breakdown of your DCF and non-DCF volumes relevant to your stage in the supply chain according to how verification is achieved and the highest level of traceability, respectively.
Question dependencies
This question is only presented to companies indicating they have DCF volumes in column 6 F1.5a
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
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(F1.5c) For your disclosed commodity(ies), indicate the percentage of the production/consumption volume sourced by national and/or sub-national jurisdiction of origin.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select "Consumption data available, disclosing", "Production data available, disclosing" or "Consumption and production data available, disclosing" in response to F1.5.
Change from last year
Minor change; Modified guidance; Additional guidance (2022 F1.5b)
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
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Forest risk commodity
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State or equivalent jurisdiction
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% of total production/consumption volume
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘…disclosing’ in F1.5
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Select from:
- List of forest risk countries
- Any other countries/areas
- Unknown origin
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- Specify state/equivalent jurisdiction
- Don’t know
- Not disclosing
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add row]
(F1.5d) Why is your organization not disclosing production and/or consumption data for your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Data available, but not disclosing’ in response to F1.5.
Change from last year
No change (2022 F1.5c)
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Primary reason
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Please explain
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Data available, but not disclosing’ in F1.5
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Select from:
- Only partial scoping of forest risk commodities in products/supply chain completed
- Data considered confidential
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F1.5e) Why is production and/or consumption data not available for your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Data not available’ in response to F1.5.
Change from last year
No change (2022 F1.5d)
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Primary reason
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Please explain
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Data not available’ in F1.5
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Select from:
- Forests-related data collection is in progress
- We are planning to collect the data within the next two years
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- Insufficient knowledge of deforestation/forest degradation impacts from forest risk commodities
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F1.5f) How does your organisation produce or consume biofuel derived from palm oil?
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Palm Oil' in response to F0.4
Change from last year
Minor change (2022 F1.5e)
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5. Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
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Metric
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Country/Area of origin
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select from:
- Liters
- Gallons
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- List of forest risk countries
- Any other countries/areas
- Unknown origin
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State or equivalent jurisdiction
| % of total production/consumption volume
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- Specify state/equivalent jurisdiction
- Don't know
- Not disclosing
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- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don't know
- Not applicable
| Select from:
- Yes
- No
- Don't know
- Not disclosing
- Not applicable
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Detrimental impacts on your business
(F1.6) Has your organization experienced any detrimental forests-related impacts?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F1.6a) Describe the forests-related detrimental impacts experienced by your organization, your response, and the total financial impact.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F1.6
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 9: Access to remedy and environmental restoration
Response options
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Primary impact
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Description of impact
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Primary response
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Total financial impact
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Description of response
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputational and
markets
- Technological
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- Response drop-down list below table
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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- Response drop-down list below table
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Numerical field [enter a number from
0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Primary impact driver (column 3)
Acute physical:
- Cold wave/ frost
- Heat wave
- Landslide
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Subsidence
- Wildfires
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, groundwater)
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Other acute physical driver, please specify
Chronic physical:
- Increased severity of extreme weather events
- Changes in precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Coastal erosion
- Heat stress
- Ocean acidification
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Seasonal supply variability
- Saline intrusion
- Soil degradation
- Soil erosion
- Solifluction
- Temperature variability
- Increased ecosystem vulnerability
- Declining ecosystem services
- Scarcity of land resources
- Land loss to desertification
- Other chronic physical driver, please specify
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Regulatory:
- Changes to product standards
- Lack of mature certification and sustainability standards
- Changes in land tenure regulations
- Uncertainty and/or conflicts involving land ownership and occupancy rights
- Increased difficulty in obtaining operations permits
- Non-compliance with national legislation
- Changes to national legislation
- Non-compliance with international law and bilateral agreements
- Changes to international law and bilateral agreements
- Moratoria and voluntary agreements
- Poor enforcement of regulation
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Other regulatory driver, please specify
Reputational and markets:
- Shifts in consumer preference
- Increased cost of certified sustainable material
- Availability of certified sustainable material
- Increased commodity prices
- Uncertainty about product origin and/or legality
- Local community opposition
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Exposure to sanctions and litigation
- Uncertainty in market signs
- Negative media coverage
- Leakage markets
- Other reputational and market driver, please specify
Technological:
- Inability to increase yield of existing production areas
- Limited access to soil conservation and other sustainable techniques
- Limited access to drought-resistant crop varieties
- Lack of monitoring systems
- Other technological driver, please specify
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Primary impact (column 4)
- Brand damage
- Change in revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Decrease in shareholder value
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
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- Increased insurance premiums
- Reduced availability of insurance on assets in “high-risk” locations
- Increased capital costs
- Increased compliance costs
- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Supply chain disruption
- Other, please specify
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Primary response (column 6)
- Adopt regenerative agriculture policies (e.g., agroforestry)
- Implementation of environmental best practices in direct operations
- Establishment of measurable site-specific targets
- Increased use of sustainably sourced materials
- Support or implement ecosystem conservation and/or restoration projects
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Biodiversity offsetting
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Species management and/or recovery
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Improve soil health
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Improve fire management systems in sourcing region(s)
- New product/technology development
- Market expansion
- Greater compliance with regulatory requirements
- Greater due diligence
- Greater traceability of forest-risk commodities
- Tighter supplier performance standards
- Engagement in landscape approach (including jurisdictional approach)
- Supplier diversification
- Avoidance of sourcing from high-deforestation risk jurisdictions
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Transition towards a diversified product portfolio that includes alternative materials (recycled and/or plant-based) [Cattle only]
- Engagement with local community
- Engagement with customers
- Engagement with relevant governments/authorities on law and policy
- Engagement with trade union(s)
- Engagement with suppliers
- Engagement in multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Participation in sector-wide and/or multi-stakeholder agreements
- Marketing campaign(s)
- Monitor and stay ahead of regulation
- Promotion of best practice and awareness
- Promotion of sustainable forest management, including financial incentives
- Promotion of certification, including financial incentives
- Ensure grievance mechanisms are available to relevant stakeholders
- Improve emergency response systems in sourcing region(s)
- Promotion/purchase of carbon credits
- Other, please specify
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(F1.7) Indicate whether you have assessed the deforestation or conversion footprint for your disclosed commodities over the past 5 years, or since a specified cutoff date, and provide details.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Processing’, ‘Trading’, 'Manufacturing', or ‘Retailing’ in response to F0.4.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Protection of forests and other natural ecosystems
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
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Have you monitored or estimated your deforestation/conversion footprint? |
Coverage* |
Reporting deforestation/conversion since a specified cutoff date or during the last five years?* |
Known or estimated deforestation/conversion footprint (hectares)* |
Describe methods and data sources used to monitor or estimate deforestation/conversion footprint* |
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Yes, we monitor deforestation/conversion footprint in our supply chain
- Yes, we estimate deforestation/conversion footprint based on sourcing area
- No, but we plan to monitor or estimate our deforestation/conversion footprint in the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to monitor or estimate our deforestation/conversion footprint in the next two years
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Select from:
- Full consumption volume
- Partial consumption volume
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Select from:
- Since a specified cutoff date, please specify year
- During the last 5 years
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] |
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
F2 Procedures
Risk identification and assessment
(F2.1) Does your organization undertake a forests-related risk assessment?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, forests-related risks are assessed
- No, forests-related risks are not assessed
(F2.1a) Select the options that best describe your procedures for identifying and assessing forests-related risks.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F2.1.
Change from last year
Minor change; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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Frequency of assessment*
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
- Not applicable
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Assessed as part of an established enterprise risk management framework
- Assessed as part of other company-wide risk assessment system
- Assessed in an environmental risk assessment
- Assessed as a standalone issue
- Other, please specify
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- More than once a year
- Annually
- Every two years
- Every three years or more
- Not defined
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Tools and methods used*
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Issues considered*
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Stakeholders considered*
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Please explain*
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Select from:
- Up to 1 year
- 1 to 3 years
- 3 to 6 years
- > 6 years
- Unknown
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Select all that apply:
- Internal company
methods
- External consultants
- Global Forest Watch Pro
- Trase
- Sustainability Policy
Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT)
- Collect Earth
- Global Risk
Assessment Services (GRAS)
- IBAT for Business
- Preferred by Nature Sourcing Hub
- Beef on Track [Cattle products only]
- Starling
- National specific
tools and databases
- Jurisdictional/landscape assessment
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Availability of forest risk commodities
- Quality of forests risk commodities
- Embedded commodities
- Impact of activity on the status of ecosystems and habitats
- Regulation
- Climate change
- Impact on water security
- Tariffs or price increases
- Loss of markets
- Leakage markets
- Brand damage related to forests risk commodities
- Corruption
- Social impacts
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Customers
- Employees
- Investors
- Local communities
- NGOs
- Other forest risk commodity users/producers at a local level
- Regulators
- Suppliers
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F2.1b) Why does your organization not undertake a forests-related risk assessment?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘No, forests-related risks are not assessed' in response to F2.1.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Primary reason
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Please explain
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Forests-related risk assessment in progress
- We are planning to introduce a risk assessment process in the next two years
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- Insufficient knowledge of deforestation/forest degradation impacts from forest risk commodities
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Value chain mapping
(F2.2) For each of your disclosed commodity(ies), has your organization mapped its value chains?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Forest risk commodity | Value chain mapping | Primary reason for not mapping your value chain* | Explain why your organization does not map its value chain and outline any plans to introduce it* |
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4 | Select from:- Yes, we have mapped the entire value chain
- Yes, we have partially mapped the value chain
- No, but we plan to map the value chain within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to map the value chain within the next two years
| Select from:- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
(F2.2a) Provide details of your organization’s value chain mapping for its disclosed commodity(ies).
Question dependencies
This question only appears if any Yes-option is selected in F2.2.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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Forest risk commodity
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Scope of value chain mapping
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% of total suppliers covered within selected tier(s)*
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Description of mapping process and coverage*
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Your own production and primary processing sites: attach a list of facility names and locations (optional)
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Your suppliers’ production and primary processing sites: attach a list of names and locations (optional)
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities which you selected ‘Yes’ in F2.2
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Select all that apply:
- Own operations
- Tier 1 suppliers
- Tier 2 suppliers
- Tier 3 suppliers
- Tier 4+ suppliers
- Smallholders
- Customers
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a percentage from 0-100 using a maximum of 1 decimal place]
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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[Attachment functionality] |
[Attachment functionality]
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[Add Row]
Risk classification
(F2.3) Do you use a classification system to determine risk of deforestation and/or conversion of other ecosystems for your sourcing areas, and if yes, what methodology is used, and what is the classification used for?
Question dependencies
This question only appears for companies selecting anything other than ‘Production’ in F0.4.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions.)
Use of a classification system to determine deforestation and/or conversion risk of sourcing areas
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Methodology used for classifying levels of risk*
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Use of risk classification*
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Attachment indicating risk classification for each sourcing area (optional)*
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Select from:
- Yes, we use a classification system
- No, but we plan to in the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to in the next two years
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Text field [maximum 4,000 characters]
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Text field [maximum 4,000 characters]
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[Attachment functionality]
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F3 Risks and opportunities
Risks
(F3.1) Have you identified any inherent forests-related risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 5. Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Risk identified? |
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
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(F3.1a) How does your organization define substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
This is an open text question with limit of 5,000 characters.
(F3.1b) For your disclosed forest risk commodity(ies), provide details of risks identified with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and your response to those risks.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F3.1.
Change from last year
Minor change; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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Type of risk
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Geographical scale
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Where in your value chain does the risk driver occur?
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Primary risk driver
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Primary potential impact
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Company-specific description
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Timeframe
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected 'Yes' in F3.1
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Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputational and markets
- Technological
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operation
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- >6 years
- Unknown
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Magnitude of potential impact | Likelihood | Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure? | Potential financial impact figure (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure - minimum (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure - maximum (currency)* |
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Select from:
- High
- Medium-high
- Medium
- Medium-low
- Low
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Virtually certain
- Very likely
- Likely
- More likely than not
- About as likely as not
- Unlikely
- Very unlikely
- Exceptionally unlikely
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Yes, a single figure estimate
- Yes, an estimated range
- No, we do not have this figure
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
Explanation of financial impact
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Primary response to risk
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Description of response
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Cost of response
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Explanation of cost of response
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Geographical scale (column 3)
General
- Global
- Country
- State or equivalent
- Municipality or equivalent
Timber products
- Forest management unit
- Mill
- Tree plantation
Palm oil
- Mill
- Refinery
- Crushing facility
- Plantation
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Cattle products
- Tannery
- Slaughterhouse
- Farm
Soy
- Farm
- Mill
- Refinery
- Crushing facility
- Plantation
Other – Rubber/Cocoa/Coffee
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Primary risk driver (column 5)
Acute physical:
- Cold wave/frost
- Heat wave
- Landslide
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Subsidence
- Wildfires
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, groundwater)
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Other acute physical driver, please specify
Chronic physical
- Increased severity of extreme weather events
- Changes in precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Coastal erosion
- Heat stress
- Ocean acidification
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Seasonal supply variability
- Saline intrusion
- Soil degradation
- Soil erosion
- Solifluction
- Temperature variability
- Increased ecosystem vulnerability
- Declining ecosystem services
- Scarcity of land resources
- Land loss to desertification
- Other chronic physical driver, please specify
| Regulatory:
- Changes to product standards
- Lack of mature certification and sustainability standards
- Changes in land tenure regulations
- Uncertainty and/or conflicts involving land ownership and occupancy rights
- Increased difficulty in obtaining operations permits
- Non-compliance with national legislation
- Changes to national legislation
- Non-compliance with international law and bilateral agreements
- Changes to international law and bilateral agreements
- Moratoria and voluntary agreements
- Poor enforcement of regulation
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Other regulatory driver, please specify
Reputational and markets:
- Shifts in consumer preference
- Increased cost of certified sustainable material
- Availability of certified sustainable material
- Increased commodity prices
- Uncertainty about product origin and/or legality
- Local community opposition
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Exposure to sanctions and litigation
- Uncertainty in market signs
- Negative media coverage
- Leakage markets
- Limited visibility of embedded commodities
- Other reputational and market driver, please specify
Technological:
- Inability to increase yield of existing production areas
- Limited access to soil conservation and other sustainable techniques
- Limited access to drought-resistant crop varieties
- Lack of monitoring systems
- Other technological driver, please specify
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Primary potential impact (column 6)
- Brand damage
- Change in revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Decrease in shareholder value
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
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- Increased insurance premiums
- Reduced availability of insurance on assets in “high-risk” locations
- Increased capital costs
- Increased compliance costs
- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Supply chain disruption
- Other, please specify
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Primary response to risk (column 16)
- Adopt regenerative agriculture policies (e.g. Agroforestry)
- Avoidance of sourcing from high-deforestation risk jurisdictions
- Biodiversity offsetting
- Engagement in landscape approach (including jurisdictional approach)
- Engagement in multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Engagement with customers
- Engagement with local community
- Engagement with relevant governments/authorities on law and policy
- Engagement with suppliers
- Engagement with trade union(s)
- Ensure grievance mechanisms are available to relevant stakeholders
- Establishment of measurable site-specific targets
- Greater compliance with regulatory requirements
- Greater due diligence
- Greater traceability of forest-risk commodities
- Species management and/or recovery
- Supplier diversification
- Tighter supplier performance standards
- Transition towards a diversified product portfolio that includes alternative proteins [Cattle only]
- Transition towards a diversified product portfolio that includes alternative materials (recycled and/or plant-based) [Cattle only]
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- Transitioning from production/sourcing of cattle products [Cattle only]
- Support or implement ecosystem conservation or restoration projects
- Implementation of environmental best practices in direct operations
- Improve emergency response systems in sourcing region(s)
- Improve fire management systems in sourcing region(s)
- Improve soil health
- Increased use of sustainably sourced materials
- Market expansion
- Marketing campaign(s)
- Monitor and stay ahead of regulation
- More ambitious forests-related commitments
- New product/technology development
- Promotion of best practice and awareness
- Promotion of certification, including financial incentives
- Promotion of sustainable forest management, including financial incentives
- Promotion/purchase of carbon credits
- Other, please specify
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(F3.1c) Why does your organization not consider itself to be exposed to forests-related risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'No' in response to F3.1.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Primary reason
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Please explain
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘No’ in F3.1
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Select from:
- Risks exist, but no substantive impact anticipated
- Evaluation in progress
- Not yet evaluated
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Opportunities
(F3.2) Have you identified any forests-related opportunities with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
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Have you identified opportunities?
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Yes
- Yes, we have identified opportunities but are unable to realize them
- No
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(F3.2a) For your selected forest risk commodity(ies), provide details of the identified opportunities with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F3.2.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Forest risk commodity
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Type of opportunity
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Where in your value chain does the opportunity occur?
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Primary forests-related opportunity
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Company-specific description
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Estimated timeframe for realization
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Yes’ in F3.2
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Select from:
- Efficiency
- Resilience
- Markets
- Products
& services
- Financial incentives
- Other
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operation
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- >6 years
- Unknown
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
Magnitude of potential impact | Likelihood | Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure? | Potential financial impact figure (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure – minimum (currency)* |
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Select from:
- High
- Medium-high
- Medium
- Medium-low
- Low
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Virtually certain
- Very likely
- Likely
- More likely than not
- About as likely as not
- Unlikely
- Very unlikely
- Exceptionally unlikely
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Yes, a single figure estimate
- Yes, an estimated range
- No, we do not have this figure
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] |
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13
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14
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15
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Potential financial impact figure – maximum (currency)*
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Explanation of financial impact figure
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Cost to realize opportunity
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Strategy to realize opportunity
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Primary forests-related opportunity (column 4)
Efficiency
- Cost savings
- Increased efficiency of manufacturing and/or distribution processes
- Increased efficiency of commodity production
- Sustainable agricultural intensification
- Agricultural expansion in degraded land
- Reduction of food loss and waste in the value chain
- Nature-Based Solutions
Resilience
- Increased resilience to impacts of climate change
- Increased resilience to impacts of biodiversity loss
- Increased supply chain resilience
- Resilience to future regulatory changes
- Improved customer education
- Improved supply chain engagement
Markets
- Increased demand for certified materials
- Increased availability of products with reduced environmental impact (other than certified products)
- Increased growth in the alternative protein market [Cattle and soy only]
- Expansion into new markets
- Improved community relations
- Improved staff retention
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Increased brand value
- Increase shareholder value
- Strengthened social license to operate
- Stronger competitive advantage
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Products & services
- Increased security of production
- Increased supply chain transparency
- Increased R&D and innovation opportunities
- Increased sales of existing products/services
- Sales of new products/services
Financial incentives
- REDD+
- Forestry fund [paper & forestry sector only]
- Access to climate funds
- Payment for ecosystem services (other than REDD+)
- Issuing green bonds
- Incentives to promote low carbon agriculture
- Price premium for deforestation-free materials
- Letters of Sustainable Credit (LCs) [Brazil only]
- Environmental Reserve Quotas or CRA [Brazil only]
- Participation in carbon markets
Other
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(F3.2b) Why does your organization not consider itself to have forests-related opportunities?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'No' or 'Yes, we have identified opportunities but are unable to realize them' in response to F3.2.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated with
those forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘No’ or “Yes, we have
identified opportunities but are unable to realize them” in F3.2
|
Select from:
- Opportunities exist, but we are unable to realize them
- Opportunities exist, but none with potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on business
- Evaluation in progress
- Judged to be unimportant
- No instruction from management to seek out opportunities
- Not yet evaluated
- Other, please specify
|
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F4 Governance
Board oversight
(F4.1) Is there board-level oversight of forests-related issues within your organization?
Change from last year
New question for minimum version only
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F4.1a) Identify the position(s) of the individual(s) (do not include any names) on the board with responsibility for forests-related issues.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F4.1.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Position of individual or committee
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Responsibilities for forest-related issues
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Select from:
- Board Chair
- Director on board
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Chief Government Relations Officer (CGRO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Other C-Suite Officer
- President
- Board-level committee
- General Counsel
- Other, please specify
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(F4.1b) Provide further details on the board’s oversight of forests-related issues.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'Yes' in response to F4.1.
Change from last year
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Frequency that forests-related issues are a scheduled agenda item
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Governance mechanisms into which forests-related issues are integrated
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Scheduled - all meetings
- Scheduled - some meetings
- Sporadic - as important matters arise
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Monitoring implementation and performance
- Monitoring progress towards corporate targets
- Overseeing acquisitions, mergers and divestiture
- Overseeing major capital expenditures
- Overseeing the setting of corporate targets
- Overseeing value chain engagement
- Providing employee incentives
- Reviewing and guiding annual budgets
- Reviewing and guiding business plans
- Reviewing and guiding corporate responsibility strategy
- Reviewing and guiding major plans of action
- Reviewing and guiding public policy engagement
- Reviewing and guiding risk management policies
- Reviewing and guiding strategy
- Reviewing innovation / R&D priorities
- Setting performance objectives
- Other, please specify
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(F4.1c) Why is there no board-level oversight of forests-related issues and what are your plans to change this in the future?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select 'No' in response to F4.1.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
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Board level oversight of forests-related issues will be introduced in the next two years |
Please explain
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Text field [maximum 200 characters]
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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(F4.1d) Does your organization have at least one board member with competence on forests-related issues?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Board member(s) have competence on forests-related issues
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Criteria used to assess competence on forests-related issues*
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Primary reason for no board-level competence on forests-related issues*
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Explain why your organization does not have at least one board member with competence on forests-related issues and any plans to address board-level competence in the future*
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to address this within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to address this within the next two years
- Not assessed
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Important but not an immediate priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Other, please specify
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Management responsibility
(F4.2) Provide the highest management-level position(s) or committee(s) with responsibility for forests-related issues (do not include the names of individuals).
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Name of the position(s) and/or committee(s)
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Forests-related responsibilities of this position
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Frequency of reporting to the board on forests-related issues
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Chief Government Relations Officer (CGRO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Other C-Suite Officer, please specify
- President
- General Counsel
- Risk committee
- Sustainability committee
- Safety, Health, Environment and Quality committee
- Corporate responsibility committee
- Other committee, please specify
- Business unit manager
- Buyers/purchasers
- Energy manager
- Environmental, health and safety manager
- Environment/Sustainability manager
- Facilities manager
- Process operation manager
- Procurement manager
- Public affairs manager
- Risk manager
- There is no management-level responsibility for forests-related issues
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Managing annual budgets relating to the implementation of forest-related policies and commitments
- Managing major capital and/or operational expenditures, related to low-impact forest products or services (including R&D)
- Managing forests-related acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures
- Providing forests-related employee incentives
- Integrating forests-related issues into business strategy
- Setting forests-related corporate targets
- Monitoring progress against forests-related corporate targets
- Managing public policy engagement that may impact forests
- Managing value chain engagement on forests-related issues
- Assessing forests-related risks and opportunities
- Managing forests-related risks and opportunities
- Assessing future trends in forest risk commodity demand
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- More frequently than quarterly
- Quarterly
- Half-yearly
- Annually
- Less frequently than annually
- As important matters arise
- Not reported to board
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Employee incentives
(F4.3) Do you provide incentives to C-suite employees or board members for the management of forests-related issues?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Provide incentives for management of forests related issues
| Comment
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, not currently but we do plan to introduce them in the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to introduce them in the next two years
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F4.3a) What incentives are provided to C-Suite employees or board members for the management of forests-related issues (do not include the names of individuals)?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ' Yes' in response to F4.3.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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Type of incentive
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Role(s) entitled to incentive
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Performance indicator
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Contribution of incentives to the achievement of your organization’s forests-related commitments
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Please explain
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Monetary reward
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Select all that apply:
- Board chair
- Board/Executive board
- Director on board
- Corporate executive team
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Chief Government Relations Officer (CGRO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Chief Purchasing Officer (CPO)
- Other C-suite Officer
- General Counsel
- Other, please specify
- No one is entitled to these incentives
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Select all that apply:
Achievement of commitments and targets
- Ending deforestation and/or conversion of other natural ecosystems
- Restoration and compensation to address past deforestation and conversion
- Securing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of indigenous peoples and local communities
- Adopting UN International Labour Organization principles
- Increasing commodity volumes with credible third-party certification
- Increasing traceability of commodity volumes
Supply chain mapping and engagement
- Increased supply chain mapping
- Increased engagement with suppliers on forests-related issues
- Increased engagement with indirect suppliers on forests-related issues
Products and services
- Increased investment in forests-related R&D
- Increased proportion of revenue from low forest impact products and services in product portfolio
Resource use and efficiency
- Improvements in commodity production efficiency – direct operations
- Improvements in commodity production efficiency – supply chain
- Reduction of virgin wood fibre used in paper and packaging products (e.g., by reducing material input, or using recycled content/alternative fibers)
Other
- Company performance against a sustainability index with forest-related factors (e.g., CDP Forests Score)
- Engagement in landscape and/or jurisdictional approaches
- No indicator for incentivized performance
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Non-monetary reward
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Reporting
(F4.4) Did your organization include information about its response to forests-related risks in its most recent mainstream financial report?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes (you may attach the report – this is optional)
- No, but we plan to do so in the next two years
- No, and we have no plans to do so
Policy
(F4.5) Does your organization have a policy that includes forests-related issues?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Protection of forests and other natural ecosystems
Core Principle 2: Respect for human rights
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Core Principle 4: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, we have a documented forest policy that is publicly available
- Yes, we have a documented forest policy, but it is not publicly available
- No, but we plan to develop one within the next two years
- No
(F4.5a) Select the options to describe the scope and content of your policy.
Question Dependencies
If you select ‘Yes, we have a documented forest policy that is publicly available’ or ‘Yes, we have a documented forest policy, but it is not publicly available’ in F4.5, this question will be presented.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Protection of forests and other natural ecosystems
Core Principle 2: Respect for human rights
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Response options
Please complete the following table:
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Scope
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Commodity coverage
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Content
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Document attachment
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Company-wide
- Selected facilities, businesses or geographies only
- Selected products only
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Select all that apply:
- General forests policy covering all commodities
- Cattle products
- Palm oil
- Soy
- Timber products
- Other - Cocoa
- Other - Coffee
- Other - Rubber
|
Select all that apply:
- Commitment to eliminate conversion of natural ecosystems
- Commitment to no land clearance by burning or clearcutting
- Commitment to
eliminate deforestation
- Commitment to no deforestation, to no planting on peatlands and to no exploitation (NDPE)
- Secure Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of indigenous people and local communities
- Adoption of the UN International Labour Organization principles
- Commitment to remediation, restoration and/or compensation of past harms
- Commitment to best management practices for soils and peat
- Commitment to take action beyond own supply chain to tackle environmental issues
- Commitment to resolving both social and environmental issues in own operations and supply chain
- Commitment to
protect rights and livelihoods of local communities
- Commitments beyond
regulatory compliance
- Commitment to
transparency
- Commitment to stakeholder awareness and engagement
- Commitment to
align with the SDGs
- Recognition of the overall importance
of forests and other natural ecosystems
- Description of business dependency on
forests
- Recognition of potential business
impact on forests and other natural ecosystems
- Description of forest risk commodities,
parts of the business, and stages of value-chain covered by the policy
- List of timebound milestones and
targets
- Description
of forests-related performance standards for direct operations
- Description
of forests-related standards for procurement
- Other, please specify
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[Attachment functionality]
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Public commitment
(F4.6) Has your organization made a public commitment to reduce or remove deforestation and/or forest degradation from its direct operations and/or supply chain?
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Protection of forests and other natural ecosystems
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Public commitments made?
|
Select from: List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
|
Select from:
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(F4.6a) Has your organization endorsed any of the following initiatives as part of its public commitment to reduce or remove deforestation and/or forest degradation?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F4.6.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Protection of forests and other natural ecosystems
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Select all that apply:
- New York Declaration on Forests
- Tropical Forest Alliance
- Cerrado Manifesto
- Soy Moratorium
- Cattle Agreement (TAC)
- Chinese Sustainable Meat Declaration
- Compromiso Gran Chaco Argentino 2030
- Fashion Pact
- No, we do not endorse any initiatives
- Other, please specify
(F4.6b) Provide details on your public commitment(s), including the description of specific criteria, coverage, and actions.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F4.6.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 1: Protection of forests and other natural ecosystems
Core Principle 2: Respect for human rights
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Core Principle 4: Company systems and processes to drive effective implementation
Response options
Please complete the following table.You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
1
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2
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3
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4
|
5
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Forest risk commodity
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Criteria
|
Operational coverage
|
% of total production/ consumption covered by commitment
|
Cutoff date
|
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Direct operations and supply chain
- Selected facilities, businesses or geographies only
|
Select from:
- <1%
- 1-5%
- 6-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
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Select from:
- <1987
- 1987-1992
- 1993-1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- Not applicable
- No cutoff date
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6
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7
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8
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9
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Forest risk countries/areas that the cutoff date applies to
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Reason for selecting cutoff date
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Commitment target date
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Please explain
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Select all that apply:
- Applied globally
- List of forest risk countries
- Any other countries/areas
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Select from:
- Sector-wide agreement/recommendation
- Region-wide agreement/recommendation
- In line with supplier commitments
- Legal requirements
- Compliance with initiative, please specify
- Specific to commitment
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- <2017
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021-2025
- 2026-2030
- >2030
- No target date
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Criteria (column 2)
Environmental
- No conversion of natural ecosystems
- Zero gross deforestation / no deforestation
- Zero net deforestation
- No new development on peat regardless of depth
- Best management practices for existing cultivation on peat [Palm oil only]
- Restoration and compensation to address past deforestation and conversion
- Avoidance of negative impacts on threatened and protected species and habitats
- No trade of CITES listed species
- No land clearance by burning or clearcutting
- No conversion of High Conservation Value areas
- No conversion of High Carbon Stock forests
- Collaborate in landscapes/jurisdictions to progress shared sustainable land use goals
- Implementation of Nature-based Solutions that support landscape restoration and long-term protection of natural ecosystems
Social
- Secure Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of indigenous people and local communities
- Operations are in accordance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Remediate any adverse impacts on indigenous people and local communities
- Promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment
- Adoption of the UN International Labour Organization principles
- Resolution of complaints and conflicts through an open, transparent and consultative process
- Facilitate the inclusion of smallholders into the supply chain
- Build community capacity and incentivize engagement in multi-stakeholder processes
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Legal
- No sourcing of illegally produced and/or traded forest risk commodities
- No sourcing of forest risk commodities from unknown/controversial sources
- Restricting the sourcing and/or trade of forest risk commodities to credible certified sources
- Recognition of legal and customary land tenure rights
- Other, please specify
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F5 Business strategy
Strategic plan
(F5.1) Are forests-related issues integrated
into any aspects of your long-term strategic business plan, and if so how?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Aspect of strategy
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Are forests-related issues integrated?
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Long-term time horizon (years)
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Please explain
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Long-term business objectives
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Select from:
- Yes, forests-related issues are integrated
- No, forests-related related issues were reviewed but not considered as strategically relevant/significant
- No, forests-related issues not yet reviewed, but there are plans to do so in the next two years
- No, forests-related issues were not reviewed and there are no plans to do so
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Select from:
- 5-10
- 11-15
- 16-20
- 21-30
- >30
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Strategy for long-term objectives
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Financial planning
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F6 Implementation
Targets
(F6.1) Did you have any forests-related timebound and quantifiable targets that were active during the reporting year?
Change from last year
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(F6.1a) Provide details of your forests-related timebound and quantifiable target(s), and progress made.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F6.1.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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Target reference number
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Forest risk commodity
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Year target was set
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Target coverage
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Target category
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Metric
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Traceability point*
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Third-party certification scheme*
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Palm oil
- Timber products
- Cattle products
- Soy
- Other – Rubber
- Other – Cocoa
- Other – Coffee
- Not commodity-specific
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900- 2023]
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Select from:
- Company-wide
- Business division
- Business activity
- Site/facility
- Country/area/region
- Product level
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Traceability
- Third-party certification
- Engagement with smallholders
- Engagement with direct suppliers
- Engagement with indirect suppliers
- Performance of owned or managed processing facilities
- Performance of processing facilities in supply chain
- Engagement in landscapes/jurisdictions
- Natural ecosystem restoration and protection
- Resource use and efficiency
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
Base year | Base year figure | Target year | Target year figure | Reporting year figure | % of target achieved relative to base year [auto-calculated] | Target status in reporting year | Is this target linked to a commitment? | Please explain |
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2023 with no decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number between 2018 and 2100 with no decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| [Percentage field]
| Select from:
- New
- Underway
- Achieved
- Expired
- Revised
- Replaced
- Retired
| Select from:
- Zero net/gross deforestation
- No conversion of natural ecosystems
- Other environmental commitments
- Social commitments
- Not linked to specific commitment
| Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Metric (Column 6)
Traceability:
- % of volume traceable to traceability point
- Other, please specify
Third-party certification:
- % of volume third-party certified
- Other, please specify
Engagement with smallholders:
- % of smallholders engaged
- Number of smallholders engaged
- Investment in programmes to support smallholders, please specify currency
- Other, please specify
Engagement with direct suppliers
- % of direct suppliers engaged
- % of volume from direct suppliers compliant with your no deforestation and/or conversion commitments
- % of procurement spend from direct suppliers compliant with your no deforestation and/or conversion commitments
- % of direct suppliers with no deforestation and/or conversion commitment across their entire business
- % of procurement spend from direct suppliers with their own commitments across their entire commodity operations
- % of direct suppliers with public time-bound action plans in place
- Other, please specify
Engagement with indirect suppliers
- % of indirect suppliers engaged
- % of volume from indirect suppliers compliant with your no deforestation and/or conversion commitments
- % of procurement spend from indirect suppliers compliant with your no deforestation and/or conversion commitments
- % of indirect suppliers with public time-bound action plans in place
- Other, please specify
Performance of owned or managed processing facilities
- % of processing facilities with DCF/NDPE commitments
- % of processing facilities compliant with DCF/NDPE commitments
- % of processing facilities with public time-bound action plans in place
- % of processing facilities with deforestation/conversion monitoring systems in place
- Other, please specify
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Performance of processing facilities in supply chain:
- % of processing facilities in supply chain with DCF/NDPE commitments
- % of processing facilities in supply chain compliant with DCF/NDPE commitments
- % of processing facilities with public time-bound action plans in place
- % of processing facilities in supply chain with deforestation/conversion monitoring systems in place
- Other, please specify
Engagement in landscapes/jurisdictions:
- Hectares of land area invested in under jurisdictional/landscape approach
- Number of landscape/jurisdictional initiatives supported
- Investment in landscapes and jurisdictions, please specify currency
- Other, please specify
Ecosystem restoration and protection:
- Hectares under restoration
- Hectares reforested
- Hectares afforested
- Hectares under protection
- Investment in restoration and conservation projects, please specify currency
- Total number of restoration and/or conservation projects
- Number of carbon credits originated (metric tons CO2e)
- Other, please specify
Resource use and efficiency:
- % of recycled content used in paper and packaging products
- % decrease in average weight of packaging per product unit (grams)
- Reduction in material inputs for paper and packaging products (tons)
- % of paper and packaging products using alternative
fibers that consider full life cycle, biodiversity, and food security
impacts
- % of commodity volume discarded as waste
- % of revenue from beef replaced with alternative sources (e.g. alternative protein) [Cattle products only]
- Other, please specify
Other, please specify:
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Traceability point (column 7)
General:
- Country
- State or equivalent
- Municipality or equivalent
Timber products:
- Forest management unit
- Mill
- Tree plantation
Palm oil:
- Mill
- Crushing facility
- Plantation
- Refinery
- First importer [Retailers and Manufacturers only]
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Cattle products:
- Tannery
- Slaughterhouse
- Breeding Farm
- Rearing farm
- Fattening farm
Soy:
- Farm
- Mill
- Crushing facility
- Plantation
- Refinery
- First importer [Retailers and Manufacturers only]
Other – Rubber/Cocoa/Coffee:
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Third-party certification scheme (column 8)
Timber products:
- FSC (any type)
- FSC Forest Management certification
- FSC Chain of Custody
- FSC Controlled Wood
- FSC Recycled
- PEFC (any type)
- PEFC Sustainable Forest Management certification
- PEFC Chain of Custody
- SFI Forest Management standard
- SFI Chain of Custody
- SFI Fiber Sourcing certification
- Preferred by Nature SmartLogging
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- Sustainable Biomass Program
Palm oil:
- RSPO (any type)
- RSPO producer/grower certification
- RSPO Identity Preserved
- RSPO Segregated
- RSPO Mass Balance
- RSPO Book and Claim
- RSPO Next
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- RA Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) standard
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
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Cattle products:
- RA SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems
- RA SAN Chain of Custody
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
Soy:
- RTRS (any type)
- RTRS Production
- RTRS Segregated
- RTRS Mass Balance
- RTRS Credits
- ProTerra certification
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- Other, please specify
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(F6.1b) Why do you not have target(s) for increasing sustainable production and/or consumption of your disclosed commodity(ies) and what are your plans to develop these in the future?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘No’ in response to F6.1.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
|
Select from:
- We are planning to introduce a target in the next two years
- Important but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Traceability
(F6.2) Do you have traceability system(s) in place to track and monitor the origin of your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*Column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Forest risk commodity
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Do you have system(s) in place?
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Supply chain coverage*
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Description of traceability system
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Exclusions
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Description of exclusion
|
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Volume from direct suppliers only
- Volume from direct and indirect suppliers
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Country/geographical area
- Business activity
- Facility
- Specific product line(s)
- Specific supplier(s)
- Not applicable
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum of 2,400 characters]
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(F6.2a) Provide details on the level of traceability your organization has for its disclosed commodity(ies).
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F6.2.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Point to which commodity is traceable
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Countries/areas to which this traceability point applies*
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% of total production/consumption volume traceable
|
Select from:
- List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘Yes’ in F6.2
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select all that apply:
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-100]
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[Add row]
Point to which commodity is traceable (column 2)
General
- Country
- State or equivalent
- Municipality or equivalent
- Not traceable
Timber products
- Forest management unit
- Mill
- Tree plantation
Palm oil
- Mill
- Crushing facility
- Plantation
- Refinery
- First importer [Retailers and Manufacturers only]
|
Cattle products
- Tannery
- Slaughterhouse
- Breeding farm
- Rearing farm
- Fattening farm
Soy
- Farm
- Mill
- Crushing facility
- Plantation
- Refinery
- First importer [Retailers and Manufacturers only]
Other - Rubber/Coffee/Cocoa
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(F6.2b) Why do you not have system(s) in place to track and monitor the origin of your disclosed commodity(ies) and what are your plans to develop these in the future?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘No’ in response to F6.2.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
|
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected ‘No’ in F6.2
|
Select from:
- We are planning to track and monitor the origin of forest risk commodities within the next two years
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Certification
(F6.3) Have you adopted any third-party certification scheme(s) for your disclosed commodity(ies)?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Forest risk commodity
|
Third-party certification scheme adopted?
|
% of total production and/or consumption volume certified* |
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
|
Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to adopt a third-party certification scheme within the next two years
- No, we have not adopted any third-party certification schemes for this commodity
|
Numerical field [enter a number from
0-100]
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(F6.3a) Provide a detailed breakdown of the volume and percentage of your production and/or consumption by certification scheme.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if ‘Yes’ is selected in column ‘Third-party certification scheme adopted?’ for at least one row in question F6.3.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core Principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 | 5 |
Forest risk commodity
|
Third-party certification scheme
|
Chain-of-custody model used*
|
% of total production/consumption volume certified*
| Form of commodity* |
Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected 'Yes' in F6.3
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Select from:
- Identity preservation
- Segregation
- Mass balance
- Certificate trading
- Not applicable
|
Numerical field [enter a number from
0-100]
| Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Volume of production/consumption certified* | Metric for volume* | Is this certified by more than one scheme? | Is embedded soy certified through this scheme?* | Please explain |
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Select from:
- Metric tons
- Liters
- Gallons
- Round wood equivalent (RWE)
- Wood raw material equivalent (WRME)
- Cubic meters
- Square meters
- Other, please specify
| Select from:
| Select from:
- Yes
- No
- Don’t know
- Not applicable
| Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Third-party certification scheme (column 2)
Timber products:
- FSC (any type)
- FSC Forest Management certification
- FSC Chain of Custody
- FSC Controlled Wood
- FSC Recycled
- PEFC (any type)
- PEFC Sustainable Forest Management certification
- PEFC Chain of Custody
- SFI Forest Management standard
- SFI Chain of Custody
- SFI Fiber Sourcing certification
- Preferred by Nature SmartLogging
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- Sustainable Biomass Program
Palm oil:
- RSPO (any type)
- RSPO producer/grower certification
- RSPO Identity Preserved
- RSPO Segregated
- RSPO Mass Balance
- RSPO Credits/Book & Claim
- RSPO Next
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- RA Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) standard
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- RSB Global Fuel
- RSB Global Advanced Products
- RSB EU RED Fuel
- RSB Japan FIT (Biomass)
- RSB Certificate for Smallholder Groups
- RSB Low ILUC Risk Biomass Module
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Cattle products:
- RA SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems
- RA SAN Chain of Custody
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
Soy:
- RTRS (any type)
- RTRS Production
- RTRS Segregated
- RTRS Mass Balance
- RTRS Credits
- ProTerra certification
- International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Roundtable
on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
|
Form of commodity (column 5)
Timber products:
- Hardwood logs
- Softwood logs
- Sawn timber, veneer, chips
- Unprocessed wood fiber
- Pulp
- Paper
- Boards, plywood, engineered wood
- Primary packaging
- Secondary packaging
- Tertiary packaging
- Cellulose-based textile fiber
- Wood-based bioenergy
- Goods not for resale (GNFR)
Palm oil:
- Fresh fruit bunches (FFB)
- Crude palm oil (CPO)
- Crude palm kernel oil (CPKO)
- Palm kernel meal (PKM)
- Refined palm oil
- Palm oil derivatives
- Palm kernel oil derivatives
- Palm biodiesel
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Cattle products:
- Cattle
- Tallow
- Beef
- By-products (e.g. glycerin, gelatin)
- Hides/ leather
- Tallow biodiesel
Soy:
- Whole soy beans
- Soy bean oil
- Soy bean meal
- Soy derivatives
- Soy biodiesel
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Control systems
(F6.4) For your disclosed commodity(ies), do you have a system to control, monitor, or verify compliance with no conversion and/or no deforestation commitments?
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F4.5 and/or F4.6.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity |
A system to control, monitor or verify compliance |
Comment |
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
|
Select from:
- Yes, we have a system in place for our no conversion and/or deforestation commitments
- Yes, we
have a system in place, but for other commitments
- No, but we plan to develop one within the next two years
- No
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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(F6.4a) Provide details on the system, the approaches used to monitor compliance, the quantitative progress, and the non-compliance protocols, to implement your no conversion and/or deforestation commitment(s).
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select "Yes, we have a system in place for our no conversion and/or no deforestation commitments" in response to F6.4.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 6: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
1
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2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
Forest risk commodity
|
Operational coverage
|
Description of control systems
|
Monitoring and verification approach
|
% of total volume in compliance
|
Select from:
- List created from forest risk commodities for which you selected 'Yes we have a system in place for our no conversion and/or
deforestation commitments’ in F6.4
|
Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Selected facilities, businesses or geographies only
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
Select all that apply:
- Geospatial monitoring tool
- Ground-based monitoring system
- Community-based monitoring
- First-party verification
- Second-party verification
- Third-party
verification
- No
monitoring and verification approach
- Other,
please specify
|
Select from:
- <10%
- 10-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
|
6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
% of total suppliers in compliance | Response to supplier non-compliance | % of non-compliant suppliers engaged | Procedures to address and resolve non-compliance with suppliers | Please explain |
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Select from:
- <10%
- 10-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
| Select all that apply:
- Retain & engage
- Suspend & engage
- Exclude
- No response
- Other, please specify
| Select from:
- <10%
- 10-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Don’t know
| Select all that apply:
- Developing time-bound targets and milestones to bring suppliers back into compliance
- Providing information on appropriate actions that can be taken to address non-compliance
- Assessing the efficacy and efforts of non-compliant supplier actions through consistent and quantified metrics
- Re-integrating suppliers back into supply chain based on the successful and verifiable completion of activities
- Other, please specify
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
[Add Row]
Brazilian Forest Code
(F6.5) Indicate if you collect data regarding your own compliance and/or the compliance of your suppliers with the Brazilian Forest Code, and provide details of your methods and progress.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select "Brazil" in column 5 ("Country/Area of origin") in response to F1.1 and if you select "Production", "Processing" and/or "Trading" in response to F0.4.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
AFi
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 6: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table:
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Indicator for compliance with the Brazilian Forest Code
|
Do you collect data on this indicator?
|
Percentage compliance with indicator*
|
Method(s) for collecting data*
|
Frequency of collecting data *
|
% of owned and/or managed properties registered on the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) database, with active status [Only shown for producers]
|
Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to collect data on this indicator within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to collect data on this indicator within the next two years
- Not applicable because we do not own or manage land in Brazil [only appears for rows 1-4]
- Not applicable because we do not have suppliers from Brazil [only appears for rows 5-8]
- Not applicable [only appears for row 3 and 7]
|
Select from:
- 0%
- 1-10%
- 11-20%
- 21-30%
- 31-40%
- 41-50%
- 51-60%
- 61-70%
- 71-80%
- 81-90%
- 91-99%
- 100%
- Data not available
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Select all that apply:
- National tools and databases
- CAR database
- Satellite imagery
- Internal monitoring
- External consultants
- Supplier documentation
- Supplier audits
- Independent audits
- Other, please specify
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- More frequently than annually
- Annually
- Every two years
- Every three years or more
- Not defined
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Legal compliance
(F6.6) For your disclosed commodity(ies), indicate if you assess your own compliance and/or the compliance of your suppliers with forest regulations and/or mandatory standards.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select one of the following as ‘Country/Area of origin’ in response to F1.1: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Thailand, United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Change from last year
Revised question dependency
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 6: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Forest risk commodity |
Assess legal compliance with forest regulations |
Comment |
Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4 |
Select from:
- Yes, from suppliers
- Yes, from owned and/or managed land
- Yes, from both suppliers and owned/managed land
- No, we do not assess legal compliance
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Text fields [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F6.6a) For your disclosed commodity(ies), indicate how you ensure legal compliance with forest regulations and/or mandatory standards.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select “Yes, from suppliers”, “Yes, from suppliers and/or managed land” or “Yes, from both suppliers and owned/managed land” in response to F6.6.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 3: Specification of commitments
Core Principle 5: Supply chain assessment and traceability
Core Principle 6: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please complete the following table:
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Forest risk commodity
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Procedure to ensure legal compliance
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Country/Area of origin
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Law and/or mandatory standard(s)
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Comment
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities for which you selected "Yes, from suppliers", "Yes, from owned and/or managed land" or "Yes, from both suppliers and owned/managed land" in F6.6.
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- List of forest risk countries
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Select all that apply:
General
- Australia Illegal Logging Prohibition Act
- Forest Law – Argentina
- Forest Law – Paraguay
- Zero Deforestation Law - Paraguay
- Forest and Wildlife Law – Peru
- Brazilian Forest Code [Retailers and Manufacturers only]
- General assessment of legal compliance
- Other, please specify
Timber products
- EU Timber Regulation
- USA Lacey Act
- Japanese Clean Wood Act
- CITES
Palm oil
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Engagement
(F6.7) Are you working with smallholders to support good agricultural practices and reduce deforestation and/or conversion of natural ecosystems?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 6: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
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Forest risk commodity
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Are you working with smallholders?
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Type of smallholder engagement approach
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Smallholder engagement approach
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Number of smallholders engaged
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Please explain
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Auto-populated from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Yes, working with smallholders
- No, not working with smallholders
- Not applicable
Palm oil only:
- Yes, working with independent smallholders
- Yes, working with scheme/plasma smallholders
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Select all that apply:
- Supply chain mapping
- Capacity building
- Financial and commercial incentives
- Other
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Numerical field [enter a number 0-999,999,999,999,999,999,999] |
Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Smallholder engagement approach (column 4)
Supply chain mapping
- Supplier questionnaires on environmental and social indicators
- Developing or distributing supply chain mapping tool
- Supplier audits
Capacity building
- Offering on-site technical assistance and extension services
- Disseminating technical materials
- Providing agricultural inputs
- Organizing capacity building events
- Investing in pilot projects
- Supporting smallholders to clarify and secure land tenure rights
- Prioritizing support for smallholders in high-risk deforestation regions
| Financial and commercial support
- Paying higher prices linked to best agricultural practices
- Financial incentives for certified products
- Purchase guarantee linked to best agricultural practices
- Long term contracts linked to forest related commitments
Other
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(F6.8) Indicate if you are working with your direct suppliers to drive action on forests-related issues and if so, provide details of the engagement.
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Processing’, ‘Trading’, ‘Manufacturing’ and/or ‘Retailing’ in response to F0.4.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 6: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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Forest risk commodity
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Are you working with direct suppliers?
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Action(s) on forests-related issues driven by engagement*
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Type of engagement*
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Details of engagement*
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Description of engagement*
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Yes, working with direct suppliers
- No, not working with direct suppliers
- Not applicable
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Select from:
- Ending deforestation and/or conversion of other ecosystems
- Restoring past deforestation and/or conversion of other ecosystems
- Securing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of indigenous peoples and local communities
- Adopting UN International Labour Organization principles
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Supply chain mapping
- Capacity building
- Financial and commercial incentives
- Innovation and collaboration
- Other
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Select all that apply from drop-down options below
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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10
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% of suppliers by procurement spend covered by engagement*
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Explain the impact of your engagement on the selected action
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Is this engagement helping your suppliers engage with their suppliers on the selected action?
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Does this engagement contribute to achieving a reported target?
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Percentage field [enter a percentage from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Yes, please specify target ID(s)
- No
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[Add row – row added for each ‘Action’]
Details of engagement (column 5)
Supply chain mapping
- Supplier questionnaires on environmental and social indicators
- Developing or distributing supply chain mapping tool
- Supplier audits
Capacity building
- Offering on-site training and technical assistance
- Disseminating technical materials
- Organizing capacity building events
- Investing in pilot projects
- Support suppliers to set their own no deforestation/conversion commitments across their entire commodity operations
- Support suppliers to develop public time-bound action plans with clear milestones
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Financial and commercial support
- Paying higher prices linked to best agricultural practices
- Financial incentives for certified products
- Offering credit lines linked to best agricultural practices
- Purchase guarantee linked to best agricultural practices
- Long-term contracts linked to forest related commitments
Innovation and collaboration
- Collaborate with suppliers on innovations to reduce forest-related impacts in products and services
- Encourage suppliers to work collaboratively in sectors, landscapes, or jurisdictions
Other
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(F6.9) Indicate if you are working beyond your first-tier supplier(s) to drive action on forests-related issues, and if so, provide details of the engagement.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select any of the following in response to F0.4: 'Trading', 'Manufacturing', 'Retailing'.
Change from last year
Modified Question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 6: Managing for supply chain compliance
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table:
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Forest risk commodity
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Are you working beyond first tier?
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Action(s) on forest-related issues driven by engagement*
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Type of engagement*
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Details of engagement*
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
- Yes, working beyond first tier
- No, not working beyond the first tier
- Not applicable
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Select from:
- Ending deforestation and/or conversion of other ecosystems
- Restoring past deforestation and/or conversion of other ecosystems
- Securing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of indigenous peoples and local communities
- Adopting UN International Labour Organization principles
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Supply chain mapping
- Capacity building
- Innovation and collaboration
- Other
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Select all that apply from drop-down options below
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Description of engagement*
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Explain the impact of your engagement on the selected action*
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Does this engagement contribute to achieving a reported target?*
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select from:
- Yes, please specify target ID(s)
- No
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[Add row – row added for each ‘Action’]
Details of engagement (column 5)
Supply chain mapping
- Developing or distributing supply chain mapping tools
- Supplier questionnaires on environmental and social indicators
- On-site meetings with indirect suppliers
- Supplier audits
Capacity building
- Offering on-site training and technical assistance
- Disseminating technical materials
- Participating in workshops
- Investing in pilot projects
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Innovation and collaboration
- Collaborate with suppliers on innovations to reduce forest-related impacts in products and services
- Encourage suppliers to work collaboratively in sectors, landscapes, or jurisdictions
Other
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(F6.10) Do you engage in landscape (including jurisdictional) approaches to progress shared sustainable land use goals?
Change from last year
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Do you engage in landscape/jurisdictional approaches?
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Primary reason for not engaging in landscape and/or jurisdictional approaches*
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Explain why your organization does not engage in landscape/jurisdictional approaches, and describe plans to engage in the future.*
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Select from:
- Yes, we engage in landscape/ jurisdictional approaches
- No, we do not engage in landscape/jurisdictional approaches, but we plan to in the next two years
- No. we do not engage in landscape/jurisdictional approaches, and we do not plan to within the next two years
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Select from:
- Important, but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- No instruction from management
- Insufficient data on operations
- Lack of knowledge or information on how to engage in landscape and/or jurisdictional approaches
- No suitable initiatives to engage in
- Benefits of engaging in landscapes/jurisdictions unclear
- Benefits of engaging do not outweigh cost
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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(F6.10a) Indicate the criteria you consider when prioritizing landscapes and jurisdictions for engagement in collaborative approaches to sustainable land use and provide an explanation.
Question dependencies
This question appears if “Yes, we engage in landscape and/or jurisdictional approaches” is selected in F6.10.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table.
Criteria for prioritizing landscapes/jurisdictions for engagement
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Explain your process for prioritizing landscapes/jurisdictions for engagement
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Select all that apply:
- Ability to contribute to/ build on existing landscape and/or jurisdictional approaches
- Access to new markets
- Company has operational presence in area
- Commodity sourcing footprint
- Current and future sourcing risk
- Opportunity to build resilience at scale
- Opportunity to increase market access for smallholders and local communities
- Opportunity for increased human well-being in area
- Opportunity to participate in new markets or financing mechanisms for the agricultural sector
- Opportunity to protect and restore natural ecosystems
- Recognized as priority landscape by credible multi-stakeholder groups
- Response to regulation
- Response to voluntary sectoral agreement
- Risk of deforestation, forests/land degradation, or conversion of other natural ecosystems
- Risk of biodiversity loss
- Risk of fires
- Risk of issues related to land tenure rights
- Risk of human rights issues
- Risk of supplier non-compliance in area
- Risk of water stress/shortage
- Stakeholder/investor request
- Supply of commodities strategically important
- No criteria considered
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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(F6.10b) Provide details of your engagement with landscape/jurisdictional approaches to sustainable land use during the reporting year.
Question dependencies
This question appears if “Yes, we engage in landscape and/or jurisdictional approaches” is selected in F6.10.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability.You can add rows by using the "Add Row" button at the bottom of the table.
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Landscape/
Jurisdiction ID
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Country/Area
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Name of landscape or jurisdiction area
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Types of partners engaged in the initiative design and implementation
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Type of engagement
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Select from: LJ1-LJ100
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Select from:
- List of countries/areas
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 500 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- National government
- Subnational government
- International civil society organization(s)
- National civil society organization(s)
- Local civil society organization(s)
- Financial institution(s)
- Local forest/rural associations
- Indigenous peoples
- Local communities
- Local producers/smallholder
- International company(ies)
- National/local company(ies)
- Direct supplier(s)
- Indirect supplier(s)
- Academics/ researchers
- External consultants
- Workers union(s)
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Convener: High level of engagement in set-up, design, management and implementation
- Partner: Shared responsibility in the implementation of multiple goals
- Supporter: Implement activities to support at least one goal
- Funder: Provides full or partial financial support
- Other, please specify
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Goals supported by engagement
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Company actions supporting approach
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Description of engagement
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Engagement start year
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Engagement end year
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900-2100]
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Select from:
- Please specify
- Not defined
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12
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13
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Estimated investment over the project period (currency)
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Is a collective monitoring framework used to measure progress?
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State the achievements of your engagement so far, and how progress is monitored*
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0- 999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 10 decimal places and no commas]
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Select from:
- Yes, progress is collectively monitored using a shared external framework, please specify
- Yes, progress is monitored using an internally defined framework
- No, but we are planning to monitor progress in the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to monitor progress in the next two years
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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[Add row]
Goals supported by engagement (column 6)
Environmental:
- Improved rate of carbon sequestration (e.g., through restoration)
- Carbon offsetting
- Reduced emissions from land use change and/or agricultural production
- Improved community resilience from climate adaptation plans or mitigation efforts
- Avoided deforestation/conversion of other natural ecosystems and/or decreased degradation rate
- Forest fires monitored and prevented
- Adequate water availability and quality (e.g. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services)
- Increased and/or maintained protected areas
- Natural ecosystems conserved and/or restored
- Biodiversity protected and/or restored
- Ecosystem services maintained and/or enhanced
- Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme in place
- Decreased ecosystem degradation rate
Governance:
- Promotion of transparency, participation, inclusion, and coordination in landscape policy, planning, and management
- Governance forums that represent all relevant stakeholders in place and maintained
Social:
- Respect, protect, and fulfil human rights
- Improved standard of living, especially for vulnerable and/or marginalized groups
- Rights to land and resources recognized and protected, and related conflicts reduced.
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- Improved business models that enable inclusion (including smallholders)
- Improved capacity for community engagement in multi-stakeholder processes
- Increased rate of employment in the rural economy
- Income diversification amongst producers in area
- Credit available to family farms and/or local communities
- Ensuring local communities and smallholders benefit from the outcomes of LA/JA approach
- Implementation of livelihood activities/practices that reduce pressure on forests
Production:
- Increased adoption of sustainable production practices (e.g., input use efficiency and water management practices)
- Increased uptake of certification
- Improved and/or maintained soil health
- Multi-commodity production promoted and farmer/supplier dependency on individual companies reduced
- Uptake of regenerative agriculture (e.g., agroforestry) practices
- Sustainability of other natural resource-based production sectors promoted to and recognized by relevant stakeholders (e.g. mining, natural forest management and non-extractive uses)
- Reliable commodity traceability and landscape monitoring/data collection system(s)
Other:
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Company actions supporting approach (column 7)
Participate in planning and multi-stakeholder alignment:
- Co-design and develop goals, strategies and an action plan with timebound targets and milestones for the initiative
- Collaborate on management/land use planning in the landscape/jurisdiction
- Collaborate on landscape sustainability assessments through participatory mapping
- Collaborate on establishing and managing monitoring system(s) for deforestation, natural ecosystem conversion and/or degradation
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Collaborate on establishing and managing monitoring system(s) for biodiversity, habitat fragmentation and/or threats to IUCN Red List species in priority areas
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Collaborate on establishing and managing monitoring system(s) for livelihoods and human well-being.
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Collaborate to maintain representation from all relevant stakeholders within governance structure of initiative
- Identify and map stakeholders (including vulnerable and/or marginalized groups) and encourage their engagement in multi-stakeholder processes
- Help establish a transparent governance platform responsible for managing the initiative and its activities with clear roles, responsibilities and balanced decision-making
- Help establish effective mechanisms for undertaking human rights due diligence, risk management, monitoring, verification, and grievance resolution
- Identify and act on opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration with your sector
- Share spatial data and land management plans with other stakeholders in the landscape/jurisdiction
Build community and multi-stakeholder capacities:
- Share information on supplier non-compliance, supply chain mapping and traceability with other stakeholders in the landscape/jurisdiction
- Engage stakeholders on importance of conservation, restoration and/or rehabilitation
- Communicate externally the business case for investing in landscapes/jurisdiction
- Support communities and smallholders in gaining access to incentives (e.g. support achieving certification, group formation, getting land title, packaging access to loans, preferential sourcing etc.)
- Support implementation of climate change vulnerability assessment
- Promote and implement climate change adaptation and mitigation activities
- Implement REDD+ actions in the landscape/jurisdiction
| Enhance government and capacity:
- Support local governments (or equivalent) to enhance landscape governance structure, and provide them with resources to develop and implement sustainable landscape policies and/or management plan(s)
- Support enforcement of land-use and/or zoning plans
Support and incentivize sustainable production and community land use practices:
- Collaborate on integrated watershed management and remediation activities
- Provide financial support to fund FPIC processes and/or activities to halt systemic violations of workers' rights
- Capacity building for farmers, smallholders and local communities to implement good agricultural practices (including improved efficiency, crop diversification and adoption of certification)
- Support indigenous peoples and local communities to clarify and secure land tenure rights
- Improve sustainability of waste management practices
Link supply chain action to landscape/jurisdictional initiative through private sector collaboration:
- Collaborate on commodity traceability
- Use preferential sourcing to support landscape/jurisdictional initiatives that are demonstrating progress
Support innovative financial mechanisms:
Other:
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(F6.10c) For each of your disclosed commodities, provide details of the production/consumption volumes from each of the landscapes/jurisdictions you engage in.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select “Yes, we engage in landscape/ jurisdictional approaches” in response to F6.10.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible production and consumption
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Core principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Core principle 12: Reporting, disclosure, and claims
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Indicate landscape/jurisdiction ID
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Does any of your commodity production/consumption volume originate from this landscape/jurisdiction, and are you able/willing to disclose information on this volume?
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Commodity*
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% of total production/consumption volume from this landscape/jurisdiction*
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Select from: LJ1 - LJ100
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Select from:
- Yes, we do produce/consume from this landscape/jurisdiction, and we are able/willing to disclose volume data
- Yes, we do produce/consume from this landscape/jurisdiction, but we are not able/willing to disclose volume data
- No, we do not produce/consume from this landscape/jurisdiction
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Select from: List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-100]
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[Add row]
(F6.11) Do you participate in any other external activities and/or initiatives to promote the implementation of your forests-related policies and commitments?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 4: Company systems and process to drive effective implementation
Core Principle 10: Collaboration for landscape and sectoral sustainability
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions.)
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3 | 4 | 5 |
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7 |
Forest risk commodity
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Do you participate in activities/initiatives?
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Activities* | Country/Area* | Subnational area* |
Initiatives*
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Please explain
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Involved in multi-partnership or stakeholder initiatives
- Engaging with policymakers or governments
- Involved in industry platforms
- Engaging with communities
- Engaging with non-governmental organizations
- Funding research organizations
- Other, please specify
| Select from:- Not applicable
- List of countries/areas
- Other, please specify
| Select from:- Not applicable
- Please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
Initiatives (column 6)
General
- UN Global Compact
- Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 (TFA)
- Natural Capital Coalition
- Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Community Member
- Global Agri-business Alliance (GAA)
- High Conservation Value (HCV) Resource Network
- Cerrado Working Group (GTC)
- Other, please specify
Timber products
- Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
- EU Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC)
- WBCSD Forests Solutions Group
Palm oil
- Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
- Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG)
- High Carbon Stock Approach Steering Group
- International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC)
- Forum for Sustainable Palm Oil (FONAP)
- European Palm Oil Alliance (EPAO)
- Palm Oil Transparency Coalition (POTC)
- Fire Free Alliance (FFA)
- WBCSD Forests Solutions Group
- Support Asia for Sustainable Palm Oil (SASPO)
- Chinese Sustainable Palm Oil Alliance (CSPOA)
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Cattle products
- Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB)
- Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock (GTPS)
- Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI)
- Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC)
- Leather Working Group
Soy
- Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (RTRS)
- Sustainable Agricultural Initiative (SAI)
- Soy Buyers Coalition
- Sustainable Soy Trade Platform (SSTP)
- UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soy
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Ecosystem restoration projects
(F6.12) Is your organization supporting
or implementing project(s) focused on ecosystem restoration and long-term protection?
Change from last year
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 13: Climate Action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 7: Land acquisition, land use planning, and site development
Core Principle 8: Land management and long-term protection
Core principle 9: Access to remedy and environmental restoration
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to implement a project(s) within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to implement project(s) within the next two years
(F6.12a) Provide details on
your project(s), including the extent, duration, and monitoring frequency.
Please specify any measured outcome(s).
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F6.12.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 13: Climate Action
Goal 15: Life on land
AFi
Core Principle 7: Land acquisition, land use planning, and site development
Core Principle 8: Land management and long-term protection
Core Principle 9: Access to remedy and environmental restoration
Response options
Please
complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at
the bottom of the table.
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Project reference
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Project type
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Expected benefits of project
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Is this project originating any carbon credits?
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Description of project
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Where is the project taking place in relation to your value chain?
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Start year
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Select from:
- Project 1
- Project 2
- Project 3
- Project 4
- Project 5
- Project 6
- Project 7
- Project 8
- Project 9
- Project 10
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Select from:
- Forest ecosystem restoration
- Mangrove protection and restoration
- Peatland protection and restoration
- Other ecosystem restoration
- Reforestation
- Natural regeneration
- Agroforestry
- Afforestation
- Soil carbon sequestration
- Agriculture
- Biochar
- Threatened and protected species
- Set-aside land
- Biodiversity offsetting
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Project based in area with direct operations
- Project based in sourcing area(s)
- Project based elsewhere
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2023 with no decimal places]
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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13
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Target year
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Project area to date (Hectares)
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Project area in the target year (Hectares)
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Country/Area
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Latitude
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Longitude
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Select from:
- <2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- 2026
- 2027
- 2028
- 2029
- 2030
- 2031-2035
- 2036-2040
- 2041-2045
- 2046-2050
- >2050
- Indefinitely
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select from: [List of countries/areas]
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Numerical field [enter a number from -90.000000 to 90.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from -180.000000 to 180.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
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14
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15
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16
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17
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Monitoring frequency
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Total investment over the project period (currency)
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For which of your expected benefits are you monitoring progress?
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Six-monthly or more frequently
- Annually
- Every two years
- Every five years
- Never
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0 – 999,999,999.999 using a maximum of 10 decimal places and no commas]
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down list below table
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters
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Expected benefits of project (column 3)
- Carbon credits gained
- Compliance with certification
- Compliance with regulation
- Contribution to net zero goals
- Contribution to SBTi target(s)
- Creation of green jobs and sustainable livelihoods
- Disaster risk reduction
- Further transformative change through sharing of project design, implementation and lessons learnt
- Improvement of standard of living, especially for vulnerable and/or marginalized groups
- Improvement of water availability and quality
- Improvement to environmental regulation
- Improvement to soil health
- Improvement to sustainability of production practices
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- Increase in carbon sequestration
- More inclusive, transparent, and empowering governance processes
- Net gain in biodiversity and ecosystem integrity
- Protection of human rights
- Protection of land tenure
- Reduce/halt biodiversity loss
- Reduction of air pollution
- Reduction of GHG emissions
- Restoration of natural ecosystem(s)
- Securing continued supply of agricultural commodities
- Other, please specify
- No measured benefits
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For which of your expected benefits of the project are you monitoring progress? (column 16)
- Carbon credits gained
- Compliance with certification
- Compliance with regulation
- Contribution to net zero goals
- Contribution to SBTi target(s)
- Creation of green jobs and sustainable livelihoods
- Disaster risk reduction
- Further transformative change through sharing of project design, implementation and lessons learnt
- Improvement of standard of living, especially for vulnerable and/or marginalized groups
- Improvement of water availability and quality
- Improvement to environmental regulation
- Improvement to soil health
- Improvement to sustainability of production practices
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- Increase in carbon sequestration
- More inclusive, transparent, and empowering governance processes
- Net gain in biodiversity and ecosystem integrity
- Protection of human rights
- Protection of land tenure
- Reduce/halt biodiversity loss
- Reduction of air pollution
- Reduction of GHG emissions
- Restoration of natural ecosystem(s)
- Securing continued supply of agricultural commodities
- Other, please specify
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F7 Verification
Verification
(F7.1) Do you verify any forests information reported in your CDP disclosure?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- In progress
- No, but we are actively considering verifying in the next two years
- No, we are waiting for more mature verification standards/processes
- No, we do not verify any forests-related information reported in our CDP disclosure, and there are no plans to do so
(F7.1a) Which data points within your CDP disclosure have been
verified, and which standards were used?
Question Dependencies
This question only appears if you select ‘Yes’ in response to F7.1.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
AFi
Core Principle 11: Monitoring and verification
Response options
Please
complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at
the bottom of the table.
Disclosure module
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Data points verified
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Verification standard
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Please explain
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Select from:
- F0. Introduction
- F1.
Current state
- F2. Procedures
- F3. Risks and opportunities
- F4. Governance
- F5. Strategy
- F6. Implementation
- SF. Supply chain module
- Other,
please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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F8 Barriers and challenges
Barriers and challenges
(F8.1) Describe the key
barriers or challenges to eliminating deforestation and/or conversion of other
natural ecosystems from your direct operations or from other parts of your value
chain.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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Coverage
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Primary barrier/challenge type
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Comment
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
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Select from:
- Value chain complexity
- Lack of adequate traceability systems
- Insufficient capital available
- Lack of adequate and/or consolidated monitoring
- Limited availability of certified materials
- Limited public awareness and/or market demand
- Lack of or limited collaboration between actors operating within a landscape or jurisdiction
- Limited political will
- Lack of understanding of landscape/jurisdictional approaches
- Land tenure and insecure property rights issues in sourcing regions
- Lack of regulatory control and enforcement form local governments
- Difficulty in identifying and addressing human rights issues
- Inexistent or immature certification standards
- Complexity of certification requirements
- Cost of sustainably produced/certified products
- Limited value chain engagement
- Competing stakeholder priorities in landscape/jurisdictional approaches
- Complex regulatory differences at various jurisdictional scales
- Difficulty in identifying areas for landscape/jurisdictional engagement
- Time consuming processes in landscapes/jurisdictions to agree among stakeholders
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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(F8.2) Describe the main measures that would improve your organization’s ability to manage its
exposure to deforestation and/or conversion of other natural ecosystems
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You can add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Forest risk commodity
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Coverage
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Main measure
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Comment
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Select from:
List created from forest risk commodities selected in F0.4
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Other parts of the value chain
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Select from:
- Development of certification and sustainability standards
- Development of certification and sustainability standards across entire landscapes/jurisdictions
- Greater alignment between company goals and goals at landscape/jurisdictional level
- Greater transparency
- Greater supplier awareness/engagement
- Greater customer awareness
- Greater community support to facilitate sustainable agriculture
- Increased demand for certified products
- Greater stakeholder engagement and collaboration
- Increased knowledge on commodity driven deforestation and forest degradation
- Investment in monitoring tools and traceability systems
- Involvement in landscape and/or jurisdictional approaches
- Involvement in multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Improvement in data collection and quality
- Minimizing food loss and waste
- Price premium for certified materials
- Reduced cost of certification/certified products
- Greater enforcement of regulations
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,400 characters]
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[Add Row]
F17 Signoff
Further information
(F-FI) Use this field to provide any additional information or context that you feel is relevant to your organization’s response. Please note that this field is optional and is not scored.
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 9,999 characters.
Signoff
(F17.1) Provide the following information for the person that has signed off (approved) your CDP forests response.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Job title
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Corresponding job category
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Text field [maximum 200 characters]
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Select from:
- Board Chair
- Board/Executive board
- Director on board
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-Suite Officer
- President
- Business unit manager
- Energy manager
- Environmental, Health and Safety manager
- Environment/Sustainability manager
- Facilities manager
- Process operation manager
- Procurement manager
- Public affairs manager
- Risk manager
- Other, please specify
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Important Information
Companies should not consider their CDP response a means of complying with any regulatory requirement to share financially sensitive non-public information with the market. You may wish to consult with your financial, legal, and/or compliance departments for advice on your company’s general approach to the provision of forward-looking statements and information concerning risks.
CDP questionnaire copyright and licensed use
The copyright to CDP’s annual questionnaire/s is owned by CDP Worldwide, a registered charity number 1122330 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England number 05013650. Any use of any part of the questionnaire, including the questions, must be licensed by CDP. Any unauthorized use is prohibited and CDP reserves the right to protect its copyright by all legal means necessary.
Terms for responding to the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2023
These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2023. If you are also submitting a response to the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire 2023 or the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2023 the corresponding Terms for responding to each questionnaire will also apply.
1. DEFINITIONS
Affiliate(s): means any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party. For the purposes of this definition, “control” of an entity means the ownership, directly or indirectly, of more than fifty percent of the outstanding voting securities or capital stock of such entity, or the legal power to direct or cause the direction of the general management and policies of such entity.
Amended Response: has the meaning given in Section 10.3.
Bank Program Member: means a banking institution or organization that has entered into a bank program member agreement with CDP, that is requesting disclosure from their clients.
Billing Company: means the organization determined in accordance with the table in Section 20 of these terms.
CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP.
CDP Affiliate(s): means any Affiliate of CDP, and any organizations within CDP’s operational group to whom we license the CDP name and brand (which shall include CDP North America, and CDP Europe, and their Affiliates).
CDP Europe: means CDP Europe AISBL, a charity registered in Belgium whose registered address is Due Ducale 67, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
CDP North America: means CDP North America, Inc., the Delaware incorporated non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose registered office is at 127 W 26th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States.
CDP Response Dashboard: the area of our website where each Responding Company signs into its corporate user account, in order to view which Requesting Authorities have requested it to submit a Response, and other information to track submission of its Response.
Deadline: means 26 July 2023 (or any alternative date that is notified to Responding Companies during CDP’s disclosure cycle for 2023, via the notification methods outlined in Section 6.4 of these terms).
Disclosure API: means the application programming interface connected to the Online Response System that the Responding Company may use through any CDP accredited solutions provider to facilitate submission of its Response.
Fee: means the annual administrative fee to enable CDP to maintain its Online Response System.
Final Closure Date: 27 September 2023 (or any alternative date that is notified to Responding Companies during CDP’s disclosure cycle for 2023, via the notification methods outlined in Section 6.4 of these terms).
Full Version: means the complete version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you as a Responding Company.
Investor Signatory: means an organization that has entered into an investor signatory agreement with us, that is requesting disclosure from companies.
Minimum Version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.
Online Response System: means the CDP operated online disclosure system, where Responding Companies are required to complete and submit their Response.
Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified from the data (such as a person’s name, email address, and job title).
Questionnaire: means the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2023.
Reopened Response: has the meaning given in Section 10.1.
Requesting Authority: means the organization(s) requesting you to complete the Questionnaire as listed on your CDP Response Dashboard, categorised in accordance with the following types (which may be modified and subject to change from time to time):
(1) Investor Signatories;
(2) Supply Chain Members; and
(3) Bank Program Members;
Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to you as the Responding Company.
Response: means your submitted response to the Questionnaire made via our Online Response System.
Supply Chain Member: means an organization, that has entered into a supply chain member agreement with CDP, that is requesting disclosure from companies that are in its supply chain.
2.PARTIES
2.1. The parties to these terms are:
(1) CDP;
(2) Responding Company (and solely where the Billing Company is not CDP, and the Fee is payable);
(3) Billing Company.
2.2. The Billing Company can be identified by referring to Section 20.
3. YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS
3.1. These are the terms that apply when you submit a Response to the Questionnaire. Please read these terms carefully. Submission of your Response signifies your agreement to these terms. Further, you will not be able to submit a Response unless you agree to these terms.
3.2. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at our Help Center: https://help.cdp.net/
4. IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS
4.1. You confirm that:
(a) the person submitting the Response to us is authorised by the Responding Company to submit the Response;
(b) the Responding Company has obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit a Response to us;
(c) the Responding Company is a legal entity and not a sole trader, partnership or natural person or persons; and
(d) the Response that you submit:
(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);
(ii) does not defame any third party; and
(iii) does not include any Personal Data.
5. ‘PUBLIC’ AND ‘NON-PUBLIC’ RESPONSES GENERALLY
5.1.Submitting your Response ‘publicly’ or ‘non-publicly’. When responding to our Questionnaire, you will be given a choice as to whether your Response can be made ‘public’ or whether your Response is ‘non-public’. We strongly encourage you to make your Response ‘public’.
6. SCORING ELIGIBILITY, DEADLINES, RELEVANT DATES, OUR SYSTEMS AND GENERAL INFORMATION
6.1. Eligibility for scoring. To be eligible for scoring you must submit your Response to us via our Online Response System by the Deadline. CDP may publish your score in accordance with Sections 11 to 13 of these terms. Please review those Sections carefully for further information relating to scoring your Response, and further criteria for publication of your score.
6.2.If submission of your Response misses the Deadline. Notwithstanding Section 10 below (in relation to amending your Response), we reserve the right:
(i) not to score your Response; and
(ii) not to include data contained in your Response in any report, data product or other analysis.
6.3. We may elect at our sole discretion to score your Response if you submit it after the Deadline and before the Final Closure Date but are under no obligation to do so.
6.4.CDP reserves the right to make changes to relevant dates. To the extent that any calendar date, or period of days is referred to in these terms and relates to the timetable for submission of your Response, or CDP’s timetable for scoring and/or publication of your score, such calendar date, or period of days, may be subject to change and modified by CDP at its sole discretion at any time, and notified to you via methods including: emails to the Responding Company and/or notifications within the CDP Response Dashboard. In addition, CDP may provide notice of any such relevant date change(s) on the CDP website.
6.5.CDP’s online systems. Our Online Response System and the CDP Response Dashboard are not the same. The CDP Response Dashboard allows you to track information related to submission of your Response and the identity of your Requesting Authorities, whereas our Online Response System is the online solution where you draft and submit your Response. You agree that CDP shall not be liable, shall be held fully harmless and accepts no responsibility for any delay to the time of submission of Response, failure to submit Responses by the Deadline, errors, omissions, corruption or loss of data or software caused directly or indirectly by the Responding Company’s use of the Disclosure API to facilitate submission of its Response.
6.6.Requesting Authority list(s) on our website. From time to time, we may make a list of Requesting Authorities available on our website, but we are under no obligation to do so on an ongoing, or exhaustive basis.
7. PUBLIC RESPONSES AND CDP’S USAGE
7.1. You agree that CDP may use your ‘public’ Response for all purposes that we decide. If you submit your Response using the ‘public’ option, our uses of your Response may include (but not be limited to):
(i) making your Response publicly available on our website;
(ii) making your Response available to your Requesting Authorities (and their Affiliates);
(iii) making your Response available to other third parties; and
(iv) scoring your Response.
7.2. Where you are headquartered in the EU, and your Response is ‘public’, we may share your reported climate and environmental actions on the European Climate Pact website. The European Climate Pact is a European Commission initiative bringing citizens and organizations together to achieve a climate-neutral Europe, and more information can be found here: https://europa.eu/climate-pact/about/about-pact_en
8. NON-PUBLIC RESPONSES AND CDP’S USAGE
CDP general restrictions.
8.1. If your Response is submitted using the ‘non-public’ option, CDP shall not publish the Response without the information in your Response first being anonymized (or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized).
How CDP may share your non-public Response.
8.2. Where your Response is ‘non-public’, dependant on the type(s) of Requesting Authorities that have requested your Response, you agree that CDP may share your non-public Response in accordance with Parts A to C below (where relevant, and as applicable).
Part A – Supply Chain Members, and Bank Program Members.
8.3. You agree that where one of your Requesting Authorities is a Supply Chain Member, or a Bank Program Member, as soon as your non-public Response is received:
(i) CDP may make your Response available to each Supply Chain Member (that is a Requesting Authority specifically for you, and their Affiliates); and
(ii) CDP may make your Response available to each Bank Program Member (that is a Requesting Authority specifically for you, and their Affiliates).
8.4. Your Response may therefore be provided to multiple Supply Chain Members, or multiple Bank Program Members. This will depend on the number of Requesting Authorities that have requested a Response specifically from you, as a Responding Company. This information can be viewed and tracked in your corporate user account within the CDP Response Dashboard.
Part B – Investor Signatories.
8.5. You agree that where one of your Requesting Authorities is an Investor Signatory, as soon as your ‘non-public’ Response is received:
(i) CDP may make your Response available to Investor Signatories (and their Affiliates);
(ii) your Response may be made available via Bloomberg terminals to Investor Signatories (and their Affiliates);
(iii) your Response may be made available via other secure third party platforms to Investor Signatories (and their Affiliates); and
(iii) CDP may list the Responding Company on the CDP website or otherwise make it known that the Responding Company has responded to our Questionnaire.
Part C - CDP Affiliates and other recipients.
8.6. You agree that as soon as your ‘non-public’ Response is received, CDP may make your Response available to:
(a) CDP Affiliates;
(b) country partners;
(c) research partners;
(d) report writers; and
(e) scoring partners,
for:
(i)scoring your Response; and
(ii)any other use within their organizations.
9. SUPPLY CHAIN MODULE (2023 FORESTS)
9.1.This Section 9 solely applies to the extent that your Response includes answers to the Supply Chain Module (2023 Forests).
9.2. Please note that all parts of your Response to Supply Chain Module (2023 Forests) will be treated as ‘non-public’ irrespective of whether you selected the ‘public’ or ‘non-public’ option for your Response. For the avoidance of doubt, you have the option to respond to the Supply Chain Module (2023 Forests) as part of either a ‘public’ or a ‘non-public’ Response, but the Supply Chain Module (2023 Forests) answers within your Response will be ‘non-public’ by default.
9.3. Notwithstanding Section 9.2 above, you acknowledge and agree that:
(a) some questions in the Supply Chain Module (2023 Forests) require you to select a Supply Chain Member using a drop-down menu. Only the Supply Chain Member (and its Affiliates) that you select for each row will have access to the information in that part of your Response; and
(b) all information you submit in the Supply Chain Module (2023 Forests) will be accessible to:
(i) CDP Affiliates;
(ii) country partners;
(iii) research partners;
(iv) report writers; and
(v) scoring partners,
(all of which are obliged to keep such information confidential).
10. ‘REOPENING’ AND ‘AMENDING’ YOUR RESPONSE
10.1. You may ‘reopen’ a Response that you have submitted for correction by you (a “Reopened Response”), provided that you do so before the Deadline. When you reopen a Response any submission that is in progress, or that has already been submitted, will automatically become void. If you reopen a Response, you must ensure that a Reopened Response is submitted before the Deadline to be eligible for scoring. To reopen a Response you must notify us that you wish to do so by 13 July 2023, and you must submit a Reopened Response by the Deadline to be eligible for scoring.
10.2. If you choose not to submit a Reopened Response before the Final Closure Date, your original Response will be stored within our Online Response System, but no further processing will be undertaken, CDP will not use it in any manner prescribed for valid on-time Responses pursuant to these terms, and your Response will no longer be made available to your Requesting Authorities (or any other third parties).
10.3. Our process for ‘amending’ your Response differs from our process for reopening your Response. Amending your Response may be actioned by CDP staff on your behalf, with the decision to do so being at CDP’s absolute discretion, and furthermore, we may charge a fee for making amendments to your Response (an “Amended Response”).
10.4. We are under no obligation to accept your request for, or to provide you with an option to submit an Amended Response, but in the event that we choose to do so:
(i) amendments to your Response will be made no earlier than 5 October 2023;
(ii) the final date for requesting that CDP make amendments to your Response is 30 November 2023; and
(iii) any amendments requested to be made to a submitted Response from 14 July 2023 may not be reflected in any score, report, data product or other analysis.
10.5. We cannot commit to consideration of amending your Response if the Scoring Special Provisions described in Section 11 apply to you. In the event that the Scoring Special Provisions apply to you, and you wish for us to amend your Response, please contact our Help Center: https://help.cdp.net/ for more information about amending your Response.
11. SCORING SPECIAL PROVISIONS
11.1. Where you are headquartered or operate in Ukraine and do not submit a Response, we will not attribute any score to your Response and will recognise a pause in reporting where appropriate. Where you are headquartered in Belarus or the Russian Federation, your Response will not be eligible for scoring.
12. SCORING THE MINIMUM AND THE FULL VERSION
12.1. Scoring your Response to the Minimum Version. Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.
12.2. Scoring your Response to the Full Version. Save in the case where Scoring Special Provisions apply, or where you are responding to the metals and mining and coal sector specific version of the Questionnaire, if you submit your Response to the Full Version in English (or the applicable language for your location set out below):
(i) by the Deadline: CDP will score your Response;
(ii) after the Deadline but on or before 9 August 2023: you can request an ‘on-demand’ score for a fee. Only a limited number of on-demand scores are available in 2023, so your request may not be granted. Please contact your local CDP office for more information about on-demand scoring.
12.3. Scoring non-English language Responses. CDP recommends that wherever possible you respond in English. This is to facilitate the broadest applicability, usages and utility of your Response. Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your Response in any language other than English. The following languages may be used to submit your Response to the Full Version of the Questionnaire: Chinese (if you are located in China); Japanese (if you are located in Japan); Portuguese (if you are located in Brazil); or Spanish (if you are located in any country in Latin America except for Brazil).
13. PUBLICATION AND USE OF SCORES
13.1. If you are not responding to a CDP forests questionnaire for the first time, CDP may publish your score, and use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise).
13.2. If your Response is the first CDP forests questionnaire you are submitting, you may choose for your score to be ‘private,’ in which case CDP will not publish your score. If you do not actively elect for your score to be ‘private’, CDP shall be entitled to publish your score.
13.3. If you request the ‘private’ option in relation to your score (irrespective of whether your Response is submitted as ‘non-public’ or ‘public’), and you do not achieve an A grade, we may only make it available to:
(i) any Supply Chain Member or Bank Program Member that is a Requesting Authority for your Response;
(ii) CDP Affiliates;
(iii) country partners;
(iv) research partners;
(v) report writers and scoring partners,
in each case for any use within their organizations. We will not make it available to Investor Signatories.
13.4. If your Response is answered using the ‘private’ score option, and you achieve an A grade, we may only make it available to Investor Signatories, and the organizations listed above in Section 13.3.
14. FUTURE QUESTIONNAIRES
14.1. Your submission of a Response for the current year also constitutes the grant of consent for CDP to invite you (and to remind you) to respond in future years but you acknowledge that any future responses will be made upon the then-current version of these terms which you will need to accept at that time in order to submit a response.
15. FEE
15.1. Why we charge a Fee. We are a not-for-profit organization and charge certain companies an annual administrative fee to enable us to maintain our Online Response System. Unless the Responding Company is exempt from paying the Fee, as set out below, or the Responding Company is listed, incorporated or headquartered in a country/region that is listed in Section 15.2, the Fee is payable (plus any applicable taxes) to CDP (or the Billing Company, as applicable). The Fee is payable once regardless of how many responses to questionnaires relating to climate change, water security, and/or public authorities) the Responding Company submits in 2023 in addition to the Questionnaire.
15.2. Countries/regions where the Fee applies. A Responding Company will be required to pay the Fee to the Billing Company unless it is listed, incorporated or headquartered in one of the following countries: Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine.
15.3. Exemptions from the Fee. A Responding Company may be eligible for exemption from paying the Fee if:
(a) the Responding Company is listed, incorporated, or headquartered outside of Europe and North America and the Responding Company has not submitted a Response to CDP in the last three years; or
(b) the Responding Company does not have any Investor Signatories as a Requesting Authority.
15.4. Payment of the Fee. You must pay the Fee to CDP or the Billing Company (as applicable) by credit or debit card, or request an invoice via the CDP Response Dashboard, which must be paid within such time as set out in the invoice. Please note that you will not be able to submit your Response unless you have paid the Fee, you have requested an invoice, or you are exempt from paying the Fee.
15.5. CDP’s discretion regarding Fees. Please note that CDP reserves the right to decide (at its sole discretion) whether the Fee is payable or not, and we will notify you before you submit your Response whether you are exempt (via communications made through the CDP Response Dashboard and/or email).
16.RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES
16.1. Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your Response will be owned by you (and your licensors).
16.2. License. You grant to CDP, or shall procure the grant to us, of a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide license to use your Response and any intellectual property rights including copyright and database rights in your Response for the uses set out in these terms.
17. LIABILITY
17.1. We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
17.2.We are not liable for financial losses. Neither CDP nor the Billing Company have any liability to you in any circumstances whatsoever for any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of, damage to or corruption of data or software.
17.3. We are not liable for consequential losses. Neither CDP nor the Billing Company have any liability to you in any circumstances whatsoever for any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.
17.4. Exclusion of liability. Neither CDP nor the Billing Company have liability to you in any circumstances howsoever arising from the content or submission of your Response to us, our use of your Response, or your score and/or the use of or any reliance placed upon your Response or your score by you or by any third parties (including any Requesting Authorities).
18. DATA PROTECTION
18.1. Each party acknowledges that CDP may process Personal Data provided to it by or on behalf of the Responding Company, including Personal Data of corporate users of the CDP Response Dashboard, and other contacts. CDP will only process such Personal Data for purposes related to its business relationship with the Responding Company (for example, sending communications to the Responding Company encouraging completion of the Questionnaire. CDP may also share Personal Data with Supply Chain Members and Bank Program Members to enable them to send communications to Responding Companies encouraging completion of the Questionnaire.
18.2. You shall ensure that any relevant data subjects receive a fair processing notice which includes the above information and includes a reference to CDP’s privacy notice available athttps://www.cdp.net/en/info/privacy-policy and shall otherwise ensure that CDP is able to process all Personal Data provided to it by or on behalf of the Responding Company for the above purposes in compliance with applicable data protection legislation including the Data Protection Act 2018 as amended by the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 which merge the previous requirements of that Act with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“UK GDPR”).
19. GENERAL
19.1. We may assign our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.
19.2. Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us (and the Billing Company, where the Billing Company is not CDP). The Billing Company may enforce these terms for its own benefit but otherwise no other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
19.3. Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your Response to the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2023.
19.4. Variation. CDP reserves the right to change these terms at any time. The consent of the Billing Company is not needed, and any such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. If you do not agree to the updated terms, you may request to withdraw your Response within 30 days of us notifying you of the update.
19.5. If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the remainder will continue in full force and effect. Each of the Sections of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining Sections will remain in full force and effect.
19.6. Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and both the Responding Company and CDP submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms, their subject matter or formation.
19.7. Language. In the event of any inconsistency or ambiguity if these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail in relation to interpretation.
20. BILLING COMPANY
Billing Company
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Location of Responding Company
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CDP Worldwide
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All countries/regions not listed elsewhere in this table
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CDP Worldwide (Europe) gGmbH
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Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
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CDP North America, Inc
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Canada, USA
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Carbon Disclosure Project (Latin America)
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Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
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Beijing Carbon Disclosure Project Environment Consulting Co., Ltd. (北京诚度普 环境咨询有限公司)
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China
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CDP Operations India Private Limited
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India
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一般社団法人
CDP Worldwide-Japan
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Japan
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